(thanks to Dennis O’Neil)
I think they did the right thing. Admit it, you would all be extremely dissatisfied if you watched a two-minute video of a toy just sitting around and nothing happened.
This story is a few days old, but it somehow hasn’t become easier to understand with the passage of time. I understand the need to be paranoid, to fear the worse, and err on the side of blowing $#!% up…but obliterating a stuffed pony? OK, so it was pretty awesome, but surely I’m not the only one who’s thinking that there’s something horribly incongruous about blowing up a children’s toy just because they can or think the toy is some sort of horrible potential Trojan Horse. Man, I’d hate to think what might have happened had the errant doll been…oh, I don’t know…Santa Claus?? Can you just imagine the weeping and gnashing of teeth from the children? Try being a parent and ‘splainin’ that one, eh??
CHILD: MOM!!!! THEY BLOWED UP SANTA!!!! WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO CHRISTMAS??
MOM: Ohferchrissakes…where’s my gin and tonic? Just shoot me now, willya??
So you still want to tell me that the terrorists haven’t won? Jeebus, y’all…it’s official; we’re scared of our own freakin’ shadow…and children’s toys….
