"Safe sawing? That's like wearing condoms on your hands when everybody knows woodworking feels best bareback."
That's how Comedy Central's ribald political pundit Stephen Colbert characterized the ongoing debate over the Consumer Product Safety Commission's controversial proposed overhaul of table saw safety standards. Colbert's window on the issue was his recurring "People Destroying America" segment, and his target this time was "finger hugger" Stephen Gass, inventor of SawStop. As for the table saw industry, Colbert paraphrased its resistance to adopting the technology, saying it claims SawStop would "increase the accident rate because it would give our fingers a false sense of security." In typical fashion, Colbert cut deep into the issue, yet he still managed to keep all his digits.
Here's the segment clip:
And here's a link to the entire show from Monday night.
