I couldn't give a cucumber!

Yay for idomatic phrases :-)
Check out this one. Brought to me (and now to you) by dictionary.com, Spanish Word of the Day (Saturday, July 7, 2007)

pepino, noun
cucumber

Pepino is the Spanish word for cucumber. For example, if you’re shopping at the market, you could say:

Dos pepinos, por favor.
Two cucumbers, please.

But did you know that you can also use the expression me importa un pepino to say that you could(n’t) care less?

Me importa un pepino lo que piense.
I could(n’t) care less what he thinks. (Literally, I couldn’t give a cucumber.) :-)

A similar idiom involves rábanos - radishes; also me importa un comino

Me importa un rábano lo que la gente piense.
I could(n’t) care less what people think.

A Lower Cost of Clothes... at What Cost?

Made in China.
Made in Bangladesh.
Made in Vietnam.
Made in Sweatshops...?

My brother and sister took my mom clothes shopping at Kohl's today and I tagged along. However after doing a search on the internet before we left doubted I would buy anything. I came across this website: http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/sweatshops/scorecard.cfm. I wouldn't judge the stores listed to harshly, but I don't doubt that at least some of their merchandise comes from sweatshop labor.

Yes using international cheap labor does result in cheaper products brought to the U.S. but I wish more people would recognize at what cost we have this convenience. I can't help look at the tags on clothing and get suspicious when it is made in a third world country.

So for now my only solution is to not buy clothing. And I also plan on checking out the store American Apparel, which I've heard is all "Made in America." http://americanapparel.net/