The Daily Show had an interview tonight with Diane Ravitch about her book, The Language Police. A fascinating, mind-boggling, exacerbating cycle of language washing going on by both the right and the left (more left than right).
The most stunning example, to me, was that you couldn't tell a story about a blind man who climbed Mt. McKinley (a true story). It's not just that you can't tell about a blind man with courage (it means, apparently, that "other blind people are handicapped and need special courage"), but you also can't say that he climbed the mountain in an ice storm. See, some children might have never seen an ice storm, so the story indicates regional bias. Yet - all of this stuff you can't say is on TV, on the Internet, out there in the wide world.
Boggling.