From "The World is Going Crazy" Department

Barbie is banned in Vermont! Some people have too much time on their hands.

Click here for article by Sarah Strohmeyer

Excerpt:

I had no trouble passing for a conscientious parent until two years ago, when a serious Barbie gaffe occurred right in my home. A mother in the neighborhood we had just moved into stopped by to introduce herself. As her daughter and my daughter, Anna, played upstairs, we self-righteously bashed another pet evil, Disney. Never, we clucked, would we expose our children to such commercialism, such violence, such Technicolor.

"Look!" my new friend's daughter suddenly burst in as she thrust forward a hot-pink plastic case that exuded Barbie. "Look what Anna has!"

I cannot adequately describe the smirk that appeared on my new friend's face at that moment. I can only tell you that I felt like a hooker who had stumbled upon a PTA meeting. Thank God she didn't find the Oreos in my cupboard.

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Lenny C