File this one under "How Necessary Is This?"  The US Public Interest Research Group has released its annual list of toys that kill.  After reading the statistics on how many children have been killed in the last 15 years by toys (272), one has to wonder if the negligence for these deaths can't be placed with, oh, I don't know, the parents?!

On average, 272 deaths over the past 15 years is 18 per year.  In a country this size (nearly 300 million), one might surmise that this is a sign of progress.  Of course, none of these children are/were my own, so I cannot fathom what it must be like to lose your child to a Weeble-related incident.

Adorable plaything or deadly weapon?  You decide.