No Balloons, No Bubbles, No Fun.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070814122358.iyblgf2i&show_article=1

I understand parents being protective of their children with allergies. I really do. Patrick has a TERRIBLE dust mite allergy and you might as well forget thrift store shopping with him, or going to the clothes store at the mall, or the fabric store. Thankfully it's not a life-threatening allergy like a peanut allergy could be.

But banning balloons seems a bit... too far. Can they not publicize that the guy has a BALLOON ACT so that those few parents with allergic kids can steer clear? Yes, the stuff gets airborne. But aren't there a million other things made of latex in our environment? Am I just being insensitive here?

I'd like to see companies and politicians apply this same thoroughness to things like the drug war (ha!) and the deteriorating communities some people have to live in. Don't we have other things to get all upset and picky about? Maybe it's just me.