Patrick Hruby wrote about the PC attacks on all kinds of kids' games in a Washington Times story back in May. Here are some highlights (or low-lights, rather) about games these goofballs think should be banned from the playground. TAG is out because it favors fast children over slower ones; creates potential for inappropriate touching and/or sexual harassment; (plus) designation of one child as 'it' ostracizes said child from the overall group and may result in long-term feelings of shame and embarrassment. Instead of tag, the wingnuts suggest playing Shake, where children chase each other in order to shake hands and exchange pleasantries and no one is it. DODGE BALL is a no-no because it's too violent, too exclusionary, too, well, NASTY. Neil Williams, the bozo who's leading an effort to ban dodge ball from schools says, It's like giving each of the kids a hammer in shop class, having them put their hands on the table, then seeing if you can slam a kid's hand with the hammer before he can get out of the way. No it's not. Not even close. But wouldn't you like to see someone smash Williams' hand with a hammer, though? HIDE-N-SEEK's gotta go say opponents because it, Forces children to 'hide' from others, undercutting self-esteem (and) discriminates against obese children, who are less likely to find adequate hiding places. Gimme a break. The PC'ers suggest Wave-n-Smile instead. In this stupid game, one child closes his or her eyes and counts to 10; the others scatter around the field of play. When the child opens his or her eyes, the other children wave and smile from their positions. Oh, yeah. That sounds like a LOT more fun. And finally, MUSICAL CHAIRS gets the old heave-ho. You see, it's inappropriate for deaf children; the musical accompaniment (is) potentially ethnocentric, and children who are eliminated may feel 'left out' or consider themselves 'losers.' No, the losers are the idiots who suggest that instead of musical chairs, kids play Special Chairs, where children sit on chairs that are arranged in a circle and the instructor tells each child one-by-one that they are a 'special, special person.' I think I'm gonna go toss my cookies. Is that a game?

in a Washington Times story back in May. Here are some highlights (or low-lights, rather) about games these goofballs think should be banned from the playground. TAG is out because it favors fast children over slower ones; creates potential for inappropriate touching and/or sexual harassment; (plus) designation of one child as 'it' ostracizes said child from the overall group and may result in long-term feelings of shame and embarrassment. Instead of tag, the wingnuts suggest playing Shake, where children chase each other in order to shake hands and exchange pleasantries and no one is it. DODGE BALL is a no-no because it's too violent, too exclusionary, too, well, NASTY. Neil Williams, the bozo who's leading an effort to ban dodge ball from schools says, It's like giving each of the kids a hammer in shop class, having them put their hands on the table, then seeing if you can slam a kid's hand with the hammer before he can get out of the way. No it's not. Not even close. But wouldn't you like to see someone smash Williams' hand with a hammer, though? HIDE-N-SEEK's gotta go say opponents because it, Forces children to 'hide' from others, undercutting self-esteem (and) discriminates against obese children, who are less likely to find adequate hiding places. Gimme a break. The PC'ers suggest Wave-n-Smile instead. In this stupid game, one child closes his or her eyes and counts to 10; the others scatter around the field of play. When the child opens his or her eyes, the other children wave and smile from their positions. Oh, yeah. That sounds like a LOT more fun. And finally, MUSICAL CHAIRS gets the old heave-ho. You see, it's inappropriate for deaf children; the musical accompaniment (is) potentially ethnocentric, and children who are eliminated may feel 'left out' or consider themselves 'losers.' No, the losers are the idiots who suggest that instead of musical chairs, kids play Special Chairs, where children sit on chairs that are arranged in a circle and the instructor tells each child one-by-one that they are a 'special, special person.' I think I'm gonna go toss my cookies. Is that a game? If it was, the liberals would have an unfair advantage. First they complain that kids are overweight but lets not have them do anything physical!

Patrick Hruby wrote about the PC attacks on all kinds of kids' games in a Washington Times story back in May. Here are some highlights (or low-lights, rather) about games these goofballs think should be banned from the playground. TAG is out because it favors fast children over slower ones; creates potential for inappropriate touching and/or sexual harassment; (plus) designation of one child as 'it' ostracizes said child from the overall group and may result in long-term feelings of shame and embarrassment. Instead of tag, the wingnuts suggest playing Shake, where children chase each other in order to shake hands and exchange pleasantries and no one is it. DODGE BALL is a no-no because it's too violent, too exclusionary, too, well, NASTY. Neil Williams, the bozo who's leading an effort to ban dodge ball from schools says, It's like giving each of the kids a hammer in shop class, having them put their hands on the table, then seeing if you can slam a kid's hand with the hammer before he can get out of the way. No it's not. Not even close. But wouldn't you like to see someone smash Williams' hand with a hammer, though? HIDE-N-SEEK's gotta go say opponents because it, Forces children to 'hide' from others, undercutting self-esteem (and) discriminates against obese children, who are less likely to find adequate hiding places. Gimme a break. The PC'ers suggest Wave-n-Smile instead. In this stupid game, one child closes his or her eyes and counts to 10; the others scatter around the field of play. When the child opens his or her eyes, the other children wave and smile from their positions. Oh, yeah. That sounds like a LOT more fun. And finally, MUSICAL CHAIRS gets the old heave-ho. You see, it's inappropriate for deaf children; the musical accompaniment (is) potentially ethnocentric, and children who are eliminated may feel 'left out' or consider themselves 'losers.' No, the losers are the idiots who suggest that instead of musical chairs, kids play Special Chairs, where children sit on chairs that are arranged in a circle and the instructor tells each child one-by-one that they are a 'special, special person.' I think I'm gonna go toss my cookies. Is that a game? What ever happened to Hoover-Ball ?

While I like to see athletic excellence, I don't favor competition. It brings out the worst in most people.  Rabid fans are ready to kill. Hooliganism.  Senseless enmity.  Sportsmanship is dead. Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing. Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser. It is really bizarre in pro sports, where we have competition of the freaks.  Nine foot tall basketball p_layer_s with half the real talent of some five footers.  Or football, where sumo knights in armor try to cripple one another. Or wrestling, which is really soap opera, badly acted by beefy steroid no-necks shouting at one another, and kicking a guy when he is down while the crowd cheers.  What have we come to? At least golf and _base_ball still have normal sized p_layer_s. Tennis is OK too.   I really hate to see beauty contests where anybody but the winner is a loser.  Even if you are a runner up, you are a failure, so drop dead.  The same thing applies to kid sports, physical or academic.  Winning is all. Nothing else matters. Where do they teach sportsmanship and fair play these days?     Keynes If at first you don't succeed, try, try and blame Bill Clinton. (  CONs - men at work greasing the Axles of Evil . ) If we give up on the constitution, the terrorists win. You be afraid of the boogyman.  I'm afraid of a lawless government.

It brings out the worst in most people.  Rabid fans are ready to kill. Hooliganism.  Senseless enmity.  Sportsmanship is dead. Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing. Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser. It is really bizarre in pro sports, where we have competition of the freaks.  Nine foot tall basketball p_layer_s with half the real talent of some five footers.  Or football, where sumo knights in armor try to cripple one another. Or wrestling, which is really soap opera, badly acted by beefy steroid no-necks shouting at one another, and kicking a guy when he is down while the crowd cheers.  What have we come to? At least golf and _base_ball still have normal sized p_layer_s. Tennis is OK too.   I really hate to see beauty contests where anybody but the winner is a loser.  Even if you are a runner up, you are a failure, so drop dead.  The same thing applies to kid sports, physical or academic.  Winning is all. Nothing else matters. Where do they teach sportsmanship and fair play these days?    Keynes Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. If the 5 foot tall basketball p_layer_s could score more points than the 9 foot basketball p_layer_s then there would be no 9 foot tall basketball p_layer_s.

Where do they teach sportsmanship and fair play these days?     Keynes So let the Sumo wrestler work the runways because 'everybody is a winner'.