Dec
14
So, it appears that cupcakes are now a political statement. Huh. It might even get me to make some this holiday season.
On a more serious note, I find it deeply disturbing that even the suggestion of peace is now political speech and must be suppressed.
[...] As if it weren’t bad enough that some people don’t like Christmas peace wreaths in their housing developments, Shana Weiss over at HuffPo reports that some people don’t even like cupcakes – even when eight-year-olds are the ones making them! Weiss tried to order some PhotoStamps of her son in his “Make Cupcakes Not War” t-shirt, and the company rejected her order because the image she used “makes a political statement.” Because, Goddess forbid, we wouldn’t want people making political statements with their stamps now, would we? People’s faces might fall off if they see a cupcake stamp!What’s farcical is that this isn’t even a partisan political statement; it’s a pacifist one. It’s not lie the shirt reads “Assassinate The President”, or “Liberals Taste Best Deep-Fried in Vegetable Oil”. You’d think that parents of any political stripe would bristle at a company dictating what they can and cannot print on their own damn stamps. Too bad Weiss didn’t name precisely which company delivered the Anti-War Smackdown; I’d love to know who NOT to give my moolah to.(Thanks to Evil Mommy for the pointer) [...]