Rant #1,459: Why Not?

After talking about several interesting topics this week--the church massacre, the woman who is white but leans toward being black, and the Confederate flag controversy--I would like to take it easy today.

I am pooped out.

Just coming back from vacation, I found a world coming back to me that was filled with controversy.

People are at each others throats again. I haven't seen it this bad since the mid to late 1960s when I was a kid.

And the PC Police are truly coming to take us away, ha ha, ha ha.

I don't know the origins of the term PC Police, but I think I know where their reign of terror over us started.

It was way back in 1977, right before Christmas.

Singer/songwriter Randy Newman released a single, "Short People," that got so many people unnerved that it was really ridiculous.

The song was about people with "short" minds, those that were short-sighted in what they believed in.

But people took the title literally, and that is where all the problems started.

As the song rose to #2 on the charts, people were saying that the song was making fun of those who were, let's say, height challenged.

Many people of short stature, and dare I use the terms dwarfs and midgets, came out against the tune, and even many people who were of "normal' stature said the song was cruel.

Mickey Rooney ranted and raved against the song, and some other performers came out with answer tunes to this song.

But it had nothing to do with short in stature people, it had to do with people with closed minds.

No matter. We were told by the newly formed PC Police that we had to be nice to short people, and terms like midgets and dwarfs were not to be used anymore.

As usual, the PC Police missed the point then, and they continue to miss the point nearly 40 years later.

One has to think for himself to be a real person, not let others think for them.

With the PC Police, you think "my" way or it's the highway for you.

It's a good thing that the PC Police is merely a phrase, because if there was a real police force to enact their policy, I would have been arrested 1,000 times already.

I think for myself. I pretty much always have, as I grew up in Queens, and you have to be on your toes when you grow up in the environment I grew up in.

I don't let others think for me. Sure, there are laws that have to be followed, but in matters of choice, I really don't care what others think, I go my own way.

And isn't that what America is about? Self realization? In many countries, that can't be practiced. They have actual police forces that will throw you in jail, and maybe even take your life, if you think differently than they do.

Here, we have freedom of speech. That is actually what Ranting and Raving is all about, isn't it?

So, to my PC Police friends, a big raspberry to you.

And yes, Short People still have no reason, no reason, to live ...