Politics: Slow Day at the AP

The AP has a remarkably graphic mini-story of the variety that crop up on Friday afternoons. This one debunks the belief planted by "Finding Nemo" that releasing a fish into the toilet bowl will take it back to the ocean. The money graph is the last one, but read the whole thing:

Kids Be Warned: Don't Flush Your Fish
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) -- Kids be warned: Flushing your pet fish down the drain will not send it safely into the ocean as depicted in the new computer-animated movie ``Finding Nemo.''

A company that manufactures equipment used to process sewage issued a news release Thursday warning that drain pipes do lead to the ocean -- eventually -- but first the fluid goes through powerful machines that ``shred solids into tiny particles.''

``In truth, no one would ever find Nemo and the movie would be called 'Grinding Nemo,''' wrote the JWC Environmental company, which makes the trademarked ``Muffin Monster'' shredding pumps.

In the unlikely event Nemo survived the deadly machines, the company added, he would probably be killed by the chlorine disinfection.

Oh, that was worth a news story. Unemployment hits a nine year high? Screw it, what about "Finding Nemo?" Special Pentagon hit-squad created to trump up WMD evidence still couldn't make it happen? To hell with that, should we get "grinding Nemo" into the headline? Cripes.