CORRECTLY DISABLED

THE GOD OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS HAS BLESSED THE DISABLED. AMEN. I ONCE HEARD DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER, A THERAPIST, SAY THAT SHE COULD/WOULD NEVER MARRY A MAN WHO KILLED ANIMALS FOR SPORT. HOW POLITICALLY CORRECT AND WITH HER MATING STANDARD, FEW BREATHING MALE SPECIMENS WOULD BE LEFT AS HER FAIR GAME. HUNTING IS DEFINED AS "TO PURSUE GAME FOR THE PURPOSE OF KILLING OR CATCHING." THE 'MOST DANGEROUS GAME' STILL REMAINS THE QUEST OF ONE MAN BY ANOTHER. BUT NOWHERE IN THESE IDEAS IS IT IMPLIED THAT HUNTING BE FAIR. GOOD THING, BECAUSE NOW DISABLED SPORTSMEN CAN KILL WITH AS EQUAL AND SATISFACTORY AN ABANDONMENT AS HUNTERS THAT ARE NOT "MOBILITY IMPAIRED." THE WHEELCHAIR BOUND AND THOSE INDIVIDUALS WITH ANY TYPE OF "PHYSICALLY CHALLENGING DISABILITY MAY APPLY FOR A FALL DEER HUNT. I ASSUME ASSISTANCE WILL BE PROVIDED TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT "EXPERIENCED HUNTERS." A VALID LICENSE IS THE ONLY ENTRANCE REQUIREMENT. TEDDY ROOSEVELT - THE AVID HUNTER AND EX-PRESIDENT - MUST BE TURNING OVER IN HIS GRAVE AND SHOUTING, "GIRLY MEN." SOMETIMES THE COMFORT ZONE OF MY STONE AGE MENTALITY IS ESPECIALLY WELCOMING. I STILL VIEW THE MAN VS. BEAST CONTEST IN PHYSICAL TERMS ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD (SO TO SPEAK). I ADMIT THE INEQUALITIES THAT EXISTS IN MANKIND AND IN NATURE AND BELIEVE THAT BOTH MUST BOW TO UNFAIRNESS AND LIMITATIONS IN LIFE .

THE GOD OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, HOWEVER, IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM, LOVE AND COMPASSION, HAS CORRECTED THE NATURAL INEQUALITIES BUILT INTO HIS KINGDOM OF MEN ON EARTH. WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED? NOT THE LATE ASTRONOMER KARL SAGAN WHO DIED AN ATHEIST. PERHAPS THE DEER, BUT SINCE THEY ARE NOT BLESSED WITH CONSCIOUSNESS, THEY CANNOT AVOID THEIR IMPENDING DEATHS.