Posted 2:41 PM by Floyd

Sometimes I wonder if there is someone who complains about every single book, toy, or movie in the marketplace. For instance the Harry Potter books are about the struggle of good versus evil, the importance of family, faithfulness to friends, and self-reliance. So naturally every time such a book is published, some lunatic says that Harry Potter promotes Satanism.

Such reasoning is especially obnoxious because of its similarity to Islamic injunctions against the modern world. You may not like conservative complaints against gangsta rap, but they have a point about violence and misogyny. Contra such sentiment, the fundamental complaint about the Harry Potter mythos seems to be that it is completely outside the imagination of the Bible, and is therefore verboten.

The latest idiocy is a protest against the doll "pregnant Midge", which resulted in WalMart removing the doll from its shelves. Pregnant Midge isn't a teenager or a crack whore; she's married, and comes with a husband doll and a child doll. For God's sake, hasn't it been fifty years since Lucille Ball was pregnant on national television?

(WalMart wins the "giving up brussel sprouts for Lent award" for removing the doll on the first day after the Christmas shopping season. I would lay 20 to 1 odds that Midge didn't sell well and WalMart had planned to dump it anyway. Such courage!)