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The War on Fun

Cast your vote for the ACLU's next killjoy complaint

This sad little girl is thinking about the pretty new dress she was going to wear to the father-daughter dance until the ACLU threw salt in a sister's game

Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2012 10:24 am

Saying the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance (They're insensitive to atheists!)
Saying the words "one nation" in the Pledge of Allegiance (They're insensitive to Texas secessionists!)
Valentine's cards in class (They're insensitive to ugly kids!)
Freeze tag (It's insensitive to Eskimos!)
Harry Potter books (They're insensitive to Muggles!)
Learning (It's insensitive to dumb kids!)

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By now you've no doubt slapped your forehead in exasperated disbelief over the Cranston public school system's decision to ban father-daughter dances in response to a complaint from the Rhode Island chapter of the ACLU. Which got us to thinking, what time-honored and quaint school tradition will they try to ban next? Cast your vote...