Well, the cat's officially out of the bag: by the time hipster e-zines start to whine about government over-regulation of home laundry techniques,unclean clothes, and breeding fungus in your washer, you know cartoons about the subject in "Cathy" and "Family Circus" can't be far off..
http://www.lifezette.com/healthzette/laundry-hacks/
http://www.lifezette.com/healthzette/laundry-hacks/