a clean phone, disposals, racists, and snack food

Today I learned that the trick to washing your spouse's cell phone really is to make sure it doesn't get into the dryer. For those of you keeping track, that's the third time I've washed his phone, and the only time we had to replace one was when the first one ended up in the dryer. I'm going to work really, really hard to not try that with this second one.

In newspaper news:

• NBC got sued in October for showing the cheerleader on Heroes getting her hand shredded in an InSinkErator garbage disposal. Apparently the manufacturer is worried that people will think sticking your hand in a garbage disposal is dangerous.
• Leonard Pitts wrote a column about lunatic white supremacists complaining that the national media fails to report on black-on-white crime, citing the lack of non-local coverage of the gruesome murder of two white people by five black people in Tennessee. Mr. Pitts pointed out that the national media had hardly fallen down on that job in other cases, and Arizona Daily Star commenters concluded that Mr. Pitts is a horrible racist. So, Arizona - ya gotta love it.
• Pet owners in areas where the cicadas are out are saving a bunch of money on pet food.

At last but not least, whatever I was getting rid of that smelled like rotting garbage is gone, so thank goodness.