[vannrox]

Even in your own company, consider two white males washing their hands in the men's room. One wants to tell a joke to the other, but the joke contains a mild racist term or maybe something making fun of women or homosexuals. The first thing the joke teller has to do is make a visual sweep of the stalls to ensure no one else is within earshot. Yes, political correctness has come to that holy of holies, the men's lavatory.

We all know this is true! Face it, is this FREEDOM?

[GSlob]

"The 0.8% blood-content limit for drunken driving"
0.8 would make one comatose. Must be a typo. 0.1-0.08

[Bluegrass Conservative]

The first thing the joke teller has to do is make a visual sweep of the stalls to ensure no one else is within earshot.

That has less to do with political correctness and more to do with common courtesy.

[Panic in the Streets]

I was at a WSP show last night...outdoors...I came home reeking of cigarette smoke.

[Eagles Talon IV]

It is indeed not freedom and the fault lies with us. As long as we allow the few to dictate to the many (credit Spock) we will continue to suffer this crap. Personally in my life I have none of it and will offer my opinion and deal with the whining and complaints as they occur. On more then one occasion I have asked a supervisor or store manager to get someone to help me who speaks a language I can understand. My position is and has been that if a business wants MY business it damn well better cater to me or else it's sayanora (sp) and I'm off to the next place.

If people would stop being so concerned about what others think of them and worry more about sticking to what YOU believe is right this political correctness crap would go away.

[wideawake]

What's his point?

That it would be great if you could tell racist jokes in the bathroom at work and not care if members of the races disparaged in the joke heard you or not?

Or that it would be great if you could tell a racist joke among whites and never have another white person get offended by it?

Freedom is when you get to tell your joke and other people get to be offended and hold it against you.

[jackieaxe]

It's too bad the War of Tobacco has been won, if only to set the pick on the Obesity Nazis, the Mandatory helmet Nazis, and the "Big Booze" Nazis. What ever happened to mind your own business?

[Sloth]

Even in your own company, consider two white males washing their hands in the men's room.

Sorry, this crazy sci-fi scenario exceeds my ability to suspend disbelief.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

We have not been "free" for quite sometime. Take a look around at the regulations and restrictions that now hem you in compared to say 1935 or even better 1900.

As an example, in 1900 one could walk into a drugstore and buy cocaine. Yet the country didn't go under. One could, gasp!, even ride a bicycle without a helmet. Yes, Virginia, times have changed and perhaps not for the best.

[sauropod]

Good to see that Ron Kohl is still writing. I used to read him quite a bit in the early 90s.

Only thing wrong w/ the piece is his giving Stern a pass.
Stern's show was a huge source of spewed filth on the airwaves (at least when I used to encounter it on the dial in 1999).

[smartin]

All that comes to mind is that puppet that was an old codger that you used to say when asked why did he smoke: Cuz it pisses people off!"

[rwa265]

The first thing the joke teller has to do is make a visual sweep of the stalls to ensure no one else is within earshot.

One day I was cleaning our coffee pots at the sink in the men's room when a co-worker said, "Got the duty today, huh?" I answered, "Yeah, a man's gotta do what a woman oughta do." I was kidding, of course, but you bet your sweet bippy I did a visual sweep of the stalls. Too many pc'ers in our office to take a chance. <;)

[Zon]

Political correctness -- proclaimed right thinking -- has been used for thousands of years by governments and religion.. The power to manipulate people by controlling their thoughts. Control their actions by controlling their thoughts.