Lots of readers have sent me a link to the vile Halloween costumes for kids featured this week at The Stranger, Seattle’s alternative newspaper. If you really, really want to spoil your weekend, go ahead and click.

Making fun of Nancy Reagan in mourning? Making light of shoebomber Richard Reid? Ridiculing hostages about to be beheaded by terrorists? And using children to pull off the cheap gags? Who could do such a thing?

Try Stranger writer Dan Savage, whose last infamous gag was the sick doorknob-licking /voter fraud stunt during the 2000 presidential campaign.

Will these people ever grow up?