We are the world, we are the wackos
You regular readers of The B2 Journal know that on occasion, I poke fun at some of the really bizarre and ludicrous things that politicians, agenda pushers, and just plain old wackos (am I being redundant?) say and do. Today is no exception. The following are courtesy of The Limbaugh Letter:
From the social engineering front, the French National Library is currently using a large poster of the deceased left-wing philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre to promote its exhibitions and the 100th anniversary of his birth. Sartre was a chain-smoking fiend and the problem here is that the FNL, in the best traditions of the French, surrendered to pressures from the government and sponsors to airbrush the cigarette out of the poster. So now the library is stuck with a poster of what looks like Sartre sucking his thumb. Lord knows we wouldn't want anybody to be frightened away from an exhibit because of second-hand smoke ... on a poster.
From the political correctness front, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik of Norway recently accused Norwegian furniture maker IKEA of sex discrimination because they use only male models to show assembly in their instruction manuals. I know, I know, but this is for real! IKEA, which sells furniture worldwide, explained that this is done for cultural reasons. They state that using women in the manuals could cause problems in Muslim countries and affect the furniture's marketability. Bondevik, a female, is not buying it and doesn't care one whit about the company's business health. She is demanding that IKEA change the manuals to promote attitudes of sexual equality. Now if only we could export even more of our radical liberalism we could bring the infant European Union to its knees.
From the environmental extremist front, the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center reports that one of its experiments to aid the endangered Humpback Chub went horribly, horribly wrong. Their plan for a controlled flood of the Colorado River below the Glen Canyon Dam, intended to enhance breeding pools for the fish, went awry and actually caused the reduction of more than 63 percent of the chub population. I wonder if these are the same people who crippled the Western logging industry with fudged statistics about the number of and habitat requirements for the endangered spotted owl?