THE COUNCIL HAS SPOKEN
The Watchers Council vote was close this week. In fact, three articles, including my take on the President’s speech in Riga, tied for first place. The Watcher hisself had to break the tie with his rarely used voting privilege and in the end, I won out over the other two posts.
This post by Dymphna of Gates of Vienna on Political Correctness run amok got my primary vote this week:
The malignant organism that rips the social fabric of American life, leveling differences while it pretends to celebrate them, PC everywhere insinuates itself into the crevices, using a cover of well-meaning to create vacuous, bizzare realities like “zero-tolerance†and unattended college sports programs for women (while men’s programs are eliminated).
It demands — and gets — bathrooms for the transgendered who cannot decide which restroom to use.
Pornography is our constitutional right but we shouldn’t be looking at images of the Twin Towers falling.
And Dr. Sanity got my secondary vote this week for the funny and touching story of her young daughter’s early fascination with Darth Vader. This is what happened when she invited a Vader look alike to her daughter’s 5th Birthday party:
For her 5th birthday, my husband and I arranged a special surprise visit from a Darth Vader impersonator (very realistic, with light saber and ominous breathing) who arrived in the middle of her birthday party to surprise her. There were about 10 other kids at the party. Unfortunately, it was a total and complete disaster–an event that she will likely mention in any future psychotherapy as being one of the more traumatic ones in her life. Kids started screaming and crying and running away in terror. The adults watched in horror at the sudden conversion of a happy birthday party into a frenzy of frightened and hysterical 5 year olds.
Sobbing, and gasping for breath as I held her shaking little body that day and tried to explain that it was only someone pretending to be the Sith Lord; she told me that she thought that our imitation Darth Vader had been real and that he had come to her party to kill her and all her friends.
“But I thought you liked him!” I wailed (definitely no “mother of the year” award for me).
“Mommy, I like him in my imagination. Not for real.”
All the Council posts can be found here as well as other great posts from around the Sphere. This week’s non-Council winner is “Jihad Begot the Crusades; Part 1″ from the American Thinker.