Cracked magazine notices our t-shirts for kids, notices that there are political messages on some of them, and calls it “political brainwashing!” I suppose anything that has an idea in it, including Cracked, might influence the kiddies. Wouldn’t that be brainwashing, too?

There’s another possibility, one that Cracked doesn’t seem to have considered. Maybe the editors of Cracked hang out with particularly dull kids all the time, but there are children out there — I’ve even met some of them — who have their own brains, their own opinions, and a desire to express themselves. It’s the kookiest thing…

… but maybe a few of these kids wearing shirts up to size 12 are picking out their own. Stranger things have happened.