03/09/2004: "While we're on the subject of the Scouts"

Have you all heard about the rumble down in Waco, TX about Planned Parenthood and the Girl Scouts? Well, of course it has been making the headlines. Here's an article on the subject and other's related to the Girl Scouts.

First, I was glad to see the Girl Scouts responding to the criticism and boycotting with the right decision: to leave the Girl Scouts as an organization about raising little girls and not about abortion/sex education. There is no need for the Girl Scouts to get involved with that. It is something that should be handled in other areas of life.

But what cracks me up, is that once a controversy gets brewing, the news media feels the need to find all the other tiny things out there to try make the story into something bigger.

STOP THE PRESS!!! GIRL SCOUT COOKIES HAVE FAT... YES YOU HEARD ME... * F * A * T *!!!! IN THEM!?! and the bad type too!

Like this is some big surprise. Every stinking cookie has fat just like the fat in Girl Scout cookies. If you don't want to eat them, don't eat them. Don't try to make it into a controversy.