I keep seeing diamond peace symbols in jewelry-store windows. I can't figure out if it's a general-purpose '60s revival (can the E for Ecology symbol be far behind?) or an actual political statement.

I have a red, white, and blue peace symbol on my car. It says "Peace is Patriotic", and yes, it's a political statement.

Which way do they face the toilet paper roll in the dispenser?

Side on. It's a thing.

I keep seeing diamond peace symbols in jewelry-store windows

Clean diamonds, I'm assuming, lest the irony kill one.

Clean diamonds, I'm assuming, lest the irony kill one.

I was figuring they were blood diamonds, and a product of the evil capitalist machine that spits on irony.

• Are* there clean diamonds nowadays?

Damn. I was planning on replacing my grandmother's diamond pendant that was stolen, and I clean forgot that issue.

Hi! and I live 2 blocks due North of the Art Institute

Hey, quester! So you're close to all the cool stuff. And probably have lots of people passing thru the neighborhood. Sorry some of them messed with your car.

PB: I'm having issues with the toe thing. Someone remind me that I shouldn't try to apply logic or realism.

There are Canadian diamonds, Betsy. But I think DeBeers has control of most of the mines here too, so if your issue is with the company, they're harder to find.

Damn. I was planning on replacing my grandmother's diamond pendant that was stolen, and I clean forgot that issue.

There's always those cremation diamonds. Anybody pissing you off lately?

There are diamonds in Arkansas. [link]

There are also synthetic diamonds, which should make bloody ones totally obsolete. Unless deBeers has also bought up all of that technology.

Which I would do, if I were an evil monopolistic corporation, and then I would chuckle while dry-washing my hands.

You know what the problem with the world is? The villains will not admit that they are villains, despite our all knowing it. If only they would all grow mustaches, so that we may know them by their twirl!