Excerpted from NY Times.com
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: November 18, 2007
Sunny days! The earliest episodes of “Sesame Street” are available on digital video! Break out some Keebler products, fire up the DVD player and prepare for the exquisite pleasure-pain of top-shelf nostalgia.
Just don’t bring the children. According to an earnest warning on Volumes 1 and 2, “Sesame Street: Old School” is adults-only: “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”
We've been asked to protect our children from Sesame Street.
The rest of the article can be found here -
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/ma...-medium-t.html
I am dumbfounded by modern cultures' need to make everything politically correct and dumbed down to the point where nothing makes sense anymore.
I recently read. heh, that reading for pleasure in America is at one of it's lowest levels in decades. That scares me. My children are either going to rule the world with their superintelligence, or they'll be stoned to death by the other kids on the playground for daring to say that the earth isn't flat.
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