So much for having a good time at the Democratic National Convention.
The party's Denver confab has adopted a regimen of political correctness of the sort not seen since George McGovern was boycotting grapes.
Organizers have laid down strict rules, The Wall Street Journal reports, aimed at producing the "greenest convention in the history of the planet."
They include:
* No fried foods. Whatsoever.
* All meals must include "at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple and white."
Sounds like a display of chemical and incendiary weapons dispensers.
* At least 70 percent of all food must be organic and grown locally. Lots of luck with those Rocky Mountain mangoes and bananas.
And organizers have recruited 900 recycling enforcers to ensure that every scrap of trash goes into the proper bin.
The trash gestapo. We are through the looking glass and into cloud-cuckoo land.
And to make sure that any balloons used are biodegradable, the convention's director of greening (no kidding) has been burying samples in a compost heap.
For the love of God....
But full compliance is proving difficult. For example, a demand that the 15,000 fanny packs to be distributed to volunteers all be made in the US of organic cotton by union labor turns out to be impossible: Such things don't exist.
Here's an idea. Why not do the whole thing over the Internet?
No color coordination required.