Peanut allergies Jimmy Carter’s fault? Hmmm, I’ll have to think about that time line but I’m happy to blame him for one more thing. He deserves it.
My post about the oversale of peanut “allergies” generated lots of angry email, not surprisingly. Dennis Prager will tell you that his shows about this subject make people angrier than shows about terrorism or electoral politics.
Which. Is. Very. Troubling. And. Proves. My. Point.
Blame MADD, blame whoever you like, but the modern phenomenon in which even some so-called “Conservatives” insist upon turning their personal tragedies into narcissistic “causes” and (mandatory) public concerns of ever shrinking believability, seriousness and importance (“I want the human right to smoke medical marijuana on someone else’s property without anyone daring to ask what, if I’m so damn sick, I’m doing out at a restaurant! Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children??”) is an insidious, dangerous problem for the body politic.
They look at John Walsh and think, “hmmm, sweet gig…”
You know it’s true. I just have the guts to say what you’re thinking.
Precisely because these causes are based upon some personal loss, we aren’t permited to ask unpleasant questions about their legitimacy or worth, unless we are Colby Cosh:
Read More...When I see a message from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) I always become a bit ambivalent: they’re supposed to make me hate drunk drivers, but I’m afraid they only serve to make me unusually suspicious of mothers.
The group is the best imaginable example of the way politics is practiced in an age of untrammelled feeling and very little thinking. Every client group of the nanny state tries to posture as Nice People Against Bad Things, but in our time only MADD has had the exquisite shamelessness to make its very name into a pre-emptive strike against counter-argument. (…)
