While we generally avoid political commentary here at KBCULTURE, the past couple weeks have been unduly stressful, as here in the US we wrestled with the national debt issue. I was struck by a few parallels between Congress' behavior and the performance of this 1954 washer, with its weird, shape-shifting laundry tub. Cycles of yanking, pulling, and squeezing—culminating in a burp: dirty laundry, of both Washington and wardrobes, has been cleansed. [Click the picture to enlarge it.]It all comes out in the wash.