Setting free the bears
Those humorless PC scolds, who are about as fun as John Calvin at his own funeral, have turned their ire against the Vermont Teddy Bear Company. Their offense? The "Crazy for You" Bear (get it?), a 15-inch stuffed little guy that comes complete with his own straitjacket. It's all terribly insensitive, don't you see? Besides, if one teddy bear is restrained, none of us are free.
But for all those who were planning to buy this lovable little guy this Valentine's Day, I'd like to offer an alternative, which will hopefully be more palatable to our more priggish caring moonbat friends. It's a slightly "modified" version of the ever-popular Ann Coulter action figure. Order yours while supplies last.
Comments
Barry, are you aware that the people at the forefront of the move against the "straitjacket bear" are both Republicans? If you go to this New York Times story on the bears, you'll see that the states Republican governor Jim Douglas called them "very insensitive", one of his spokesmen said "you would think that someone who sits on the board of trustees of Vermont's only academic medical center would have an exceeding degree of respect for the need to treat the mental health community with parity", and Anne Donohue, a Republican state representative said "you would think that someone who sits on the board of trustees of Vermont's only academic medical center would have an exceeding degree of respect for the need to treat the mental health community with parity."
I also checked that bastion of leftist subversion, the National Association for the Mentally Ill, and the issue doesn't even appear on their Web site.
I know how disappointed you must be that this is not something that the left has fallen behind. I myself just think it's in extraordinarily poor taste.
Posted by: Jill | January 24, 2005 03:14 PM
Jill, I am aware that this is not a strictly partisan issue. My wife is not only a liberal Democrat, but a mental health professional as well, and she thinks these whiners need to get a life. :-)
Posted by: Barry N. Johnson | January 24, 2005 03:46 PM