Anchorhead said:

Two anti-American, mass murdering, communists... Now their images are being worn as fashion statements by the Echo Boomers.

Even though I said I earlier that I think I would be fun to wear a Mayo watch around, I'd like to clarify that I agree with you, I really think it is obscene. My wearing it would be a form of mockery of the Echo Boomers, but now that it seems that these things sale on ebay fairly commonly, I guess it wouldn't be much of a mockery.

I do like to collect communist trinkets though, and I have a few soviet things as well as things from some of the tinier former communist countires. As I mentioned before, I couldn't hate communism more, but I do have some sort of morbid curiosity of it. I really like reading about dictators and the histroy of former communist states. I find it interesting how a whole country can rally around one authority figure. It is really interesting to me what kinds of things pull a country into such a form of government and what kinds of things pull it out. I use to think a country like America could never under any circumstances fall into such a position, but as the years move on I am more and more convinced that it is a very real possibility.