In one of my all-time favorite cartoons from Non Sequitur, one of my all-time favorite comic strips, a radio personality proudly and excitedly pronounces the age of Political Correctness to be over. His announcement is written over several panels, one of which consisting of a couple of people wearing T-shirts with “It’s Their Fault” and an arrow pointing to the side (a la “I’m with stupid”).

I really hate it when something happens in life that recalls this exceptionally funny cartoon, such as this recent blog entry by a guy at ComputerWorld: “iPod: Killing Us Loudly”. A class-action suit against Apple (and every other consumer electronics company that makes a product with a headphone jack, I’ll add) because people’s kids play their music too loudly? For freakin’ sake, how about taking some personal responsibility for once? Would that be completely out of sorts? Aside from being a living, breathing example of how the US got itself into its current Lawyer Problem, who is this guy?

Of course, the really sad part comes with the synchronicity between real life and the last panel of the Non Sequitur strip: The radio personality is on a chaise lounge, saying “…and then that’s when I wake up” and the psychiatrist, wiping a tear from his eye replies, “That’s such a beautiful dream! Tell it to me again.”