Football

This must be the Decade of the Over-reaction. First, many have embraced political correctness, and every perceived insult, whether in humor or inadvertent, is leapt upon by the over-sensitive. Then, we have Muslims and Jews, in their imagined superiority, who take offense at some things which other people, who have also been subjected to insults, have written off as error or ignorance. (I wouldn't care if Mel Gibson insulted me, or the Pope called me names.)

Now, we have football. Recently, an assistant coach ran onto the field and flattened a teen-age opponent who had fouled his son, and on Saturday, a college game was decided in the last 72 seconds, when one team scored two touchdowns. There were two mistakes made by the officials, because they are human. Nevertheless. some idiot sent one official a death threat. It's only a game.