Hearts on sleeves and missing bones

Recently I read this article from MSNBC.com:
'Avengers' Cruel to adoption community

All I have to say to it is this,

Really?!

There are children dying of AIDS, African people starving, countries still recovering from horrible natural disasters (partially because donated funds have been lining the wrong people's pockets), and this is the best MSNBC can come up with to report to us? If this is news, them Comedy Central , not to mention all the other late night comedians, should be on trial. I suppose that one of MSNBC's 10 commandments is that thou shalt not poke fun at others who are overly sensitive and refuse to overcome their stereotypes. Instead, they demand you limit yourself and everyone around you so that you may not say certain things without setting off a mine field of consequences.

Really? Whatever happened to the high road, to rising above taunts and narrow minded nay-sayers? Oh right, people started suing each other because they started wearing their hearts on their sleeves. This is one fad our court system just can't seem to shake. There's a plethora of sue happy idiots who want a quick buck, so they sue because they put coffee between their legs, because they think that cruise control is auto pilot just because it's installed on something bigger than a sedan, or because someone said (although we edge closer to 'implied' every day) something about someone else's whatever. I will restrain from going into further detail so I do not get crucified for saying this.

I understand that people have been discriminated against in the past for some really ridiculous stuff, but have we as a nation not managed to get over that yet? I don't understand why race, color, nationality, or gender are still making the front page. I mean, doesn't this kind of action feed back into the division or segmentation of the human race? Isn't the line in the sand being drawn by fear and legislation instead of verbal taunts and physical actions?

There is the matter of excessive teasing and bullying and harassment, but a one-liner in a popular movie is not worth getting your panties in a wad about. I do not think that adopted people will become psychopaths when they grow up, but it is funny to spin the stereotype. If the complaining parties took time to think about it, then they would realize that it doesn't even make sense when coming from the god of Thunder, does it? Why would he joke like a mortal? He talks like Shakespeare for Pete's sake!

All of this begs only one real question. Where is Madam Pomfrey and her handy flask of skele-gro? Americans need to grow a backbone pronto!