I’m a a sharp-eyed blogger!

At least that is what Sara Dickerman over at Slate says:

The skull can serve as a piratelike threat, but historically it has also symbolized bravado in the face of death—a dual meaning that has made it popular among fighting units around the world. In the United States, special operations units have gravitated toward skull imagery in their insignia. During World War II, the death’s head, or totenkopf, was a hallmark of a number of Nazi SS uniforms—something that Wal-Mart unhappily discovered three years ago when a sharp-eyed blogger noticed that some of the retailer’s trendy skull shirts featured the distinctive grimace of the SS death’s head. Wal-Mart pulled the shirts and apologized, but it shows you that you have to be choosy about your skulls.

Of course Wal-Mart never really pulled the shirts unless that means that they simply continued selling the shirts till they were all gone. That’s what they did. The important thing is that they said they pulled the shirts from the shelves. To most people, that was enough. It didn’t matter that people were still finding the t-shirts on Wal-Mart shelves even 62 weeks after they said the shirts were removed.

The important thing is that I have been identified as a sharp-eyed blogger.  Maybe I should add that to me resume.

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