FOUNDATION GARMENTS: Kaelboel, which is available over on the blogroll with mustard and cole slaw on the side, writes that during the 1980's and 1990's the Dutch Secret Service, the BVD, financed a Dutch Maoist political party that also received support from Beijing. While I am sure that having a Communist Party of their very own is what every little Dutch boy and girl desperately wants for Christmas, I am not at all certain that I would feel the necessary level of fear dealing with a counterespionage organization that chose to name itself after underwear. A certain level of cognitive dissonance occurs, as when one buys Fruit of the Loom for the Vitamin C.