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A reader informed us that the ladies of The View were all sipping conspicuously out of the same ceramicware this morning: The View Winter Mug, artfully adorned with snowflakes and the disembodied heads of the show's four co-hosts, and available for purchase at the ABC online store. A perfect stocking stuffer for the "has everything" agent who will delight in adding an authentic craquelure to Barbara Walters' suspiciously supple portrait by launching it at an assistant's head, the reader went directly to the website to purchase one of the mugs, whereupon they found the following prominent warning:

CA Proposition 65 California residents please be advised, as per the Prop. 65 Warning: Use of leaded tableware, for sale on this Website, will expose you to lead, a metal known to the State of California to cause birth defects and other reproductive harm. FDA compliance: California law requires all ceramic tableware products to comply with U.S. Food & Drug Administration standards for lead release.

While the statistically tiny chance of parenting a flock of web-toed brood might seem for many too high a price to pay in exchange for the privilege of combining your first cup of the day with an artist's terrifying interpretation of Rosie O'Donnell's giant, floating melon, we'd encourage you to nonetheless sip freely and frequently from these poison-addled souvenir goblets, praying all the while that every gulp of your lead-laced hot beverage of choice brings you one step closer to permanently neutralizing your reproductive potency, thereby sparing a future generation from being subjected to any further iterations of the shamelessly shilling, ear-splitting yapfest.