It started with “outdoor urban dwellers” in place of “homeless” and now I can’t get enough political correctness into my daily discourse.

I mean, I love pc idioms the way Arianna Huffington loves community property statutes, ok?

Here’s a good one from a 5/16/05 article in the Austin Daily Herald by Sheila Donnelly, Spring Dance Brings Residents Together
In a news report about an upcoming Spring dance for the developmentally disabled, the director of the local Senior Center described the “correct” terminology one should use to describe the guests.

“The politically correct name of what to label the mentally disabled keeps changing. Now the correct name is Intelligent Cognitive and Developmental Disability,” said Helgeson.

Intelligent Cognitive…what does that even mean?

Settle down! I am not making fun mentally handicapped people…I am making fun of the people who are not.