Tom & Jerry Want To Give Your Kids Lung Cancer

Discrimination, political correctness or right-minded concern? Depends on who you ask. But British Channel Boomerang has banned two episodes of Tom & Jerry because, as they say, smoking is glamorized. And that's bad.

I guess Tom attempting to eat Jerry every episode and hitting each other with frying pans and generally wrecking the house is okay in Britain but smoking references need to be squelched.

Why would they do something like this? Because a viewer complained. Yes, one. Heck, I can get 10,000 people to support Saddam Hussein just by going to the Democratic Convention so you can get one person to complain about almost anything. Next on the list, said said Cecilia Persson, vice president of programming, acquisitions and presentation for Boomerang's parent, Turner Broadcasting UK, are "The Flintstones," "The Jetsons" and "Scooby Doo." Somehow I knew a company started by Ted Turner would be behind all of this.

Oh well, they didn't seem to mention Curious George. I don't know what would happen if kids saw him smoking.