Raising controversy

I recently had unfettered access to satellite television for several days in a row, and consequently spent a little too much time watching tv. I know that if I watch too much tv, especially some local news broadcasts, I'm going to eventually see something upon which I will have to comment. This time it came later in the trip, but I was not disappointed. I was presented with a story about a town in Oregon which has recently added some concrete posts designed to serve as barriers between pedestrians and motorists. As the article indicates, the town has raised some controversy as to whether or not the posts look like the male reproductive organ.

I think we as a society are going to at some point need to start telling people that some of the things they are worried and offended over are not in fact legitimate, and that they won't be getting their way . Is no one else in this town concerned that their citizens immediately think of a penis when they see a post with a rounded top, and then that they project their offense onto the rest of the town? Perhaps it might be time for those people to re-evaluate their thought life, their priorities, their sense of self importance, their sense of humor, and then move on to something more worthy of their time and energy.