When I heard about this asinine Oreo lawsuit I was appalled.  Apparently, I’m not the only one.  Jeff Soyer has a few choice words for the bottom feeding scum sucking lawyer who initiated the suit.

I would never condone violence against anyone, and I certainly would not encourage anyone to do same. But in my opinion, that is, just speculating—fantasizing as all of us do—on what would make this a better world, and in excercising my First Amendment rights to speak on someone who has through his own actions become a public figure, I hope Stephen Joseph trips on a clump of dirt somewhere and falls into a bottomless pit.

But he also has some important things to say about the whiny baby culture that we seem to be turning into.

If that’s what our society has come down to (and apparently that is what most liberals would like) then life isn’t worth living. We will never explore the stars because no agency could possibly afford the liability insurance for such a project. We will never again become strong as a species because no lawyer or politician (aren’t they both one and the same) will allow us to. If we now need to ban Oreos cookies because they represent a threat to us, we will never amount to anything.

This is something that’s been bothering me as well.  Only if you’re hurt through no fault of your own should you be able to sue, and then only for whatever is needed to make you whole again (or the equivalent, if it’s not possible to do so).  Otherwise, shut the hell up and deal with it.  The world is a dangerous place and to try to make it otherwise will turn it into a lifeless dull hell of endless regulation and prying nannies.

Update:  Little Green Footballs has picked up on this, and Laurence Simon left this in the comments.  That St. Claire safety sign maker comes in pretty handy.