Actually, I'm all for diversity - it's just all the damn TALKING about it that cheeses me off. So....hope you like these little tidbits as much as I do.

From the great, laugh-out-loud blog, "Overheard In New York" comes this vignette:

Chick: I don't get Spanish guys. They compliment you every time you pass them. They always say things like, "You have beautiful legs, in my country it is an honor for a woman to be told she has beautiful legs". Well, you're in NY now, honey, and I'm a bitch!

---5th Ave. & 82nd St.

Then this, from the Tacoma News Tribune. "Potato Famine Week" was recently observed at Emerald Ridge High School in Puyallup, a southeast suburb of Seattle. Critics were not amused and sounded off in the school newspaper. But the instigator, student government executive board member Brian James House (of Irish descent, FWIW) explained his intentions:

I feel that people are way too caught up in controversy and being politically correct.

Call him a South Park Conservative.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at April 15, 2005 11:51 AM

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