The View from Right Field

Ogden Nash: Sexual Predator

The politically correct and terminally sensitive have put out a revision of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” According to the concerned, the 1944 song “sounds hopelessly dated … in an age of informed consent and egalitarian relationships.”  One of the writers of the updated version of the song explained, “It was important to us to open a conversation about consent and make sure people's stories get told and the rhetoric gets changed.”

Apparently, when the current generation hears “say, what’s in this drink”, they think date rape drugs.  And the constant pleading in the song removes the necessary element of mutual constant from the sexual relationship.¹ 

13 Killed and 42 Injured. Just Another Weekend in Chicago.

Thirteen people were killed and at least 42 injured in shootings over the Father’s Day weekend in Chicago.  At that rate, in month there would be as many dead, and way more injured, on the streets of Chicago as in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.  Many people will say that it is because of our gun laws.  I don’t know if that is true or not, but the gun laws are there.  And even if we change them tomorrow, the guns will still be there.  Which means the people in charge need to come up with a solution that works even with the guns there.  Because just complaining about gun laws is giving up.