A fascinating little mouse tale from a reader:

“Derb—Thought you might like this, as it combines two of your favorite

topics: Home Depot and political correctness. My girlfriend and I own an

old house outside Philadelphia, and so are frequent visitors to the local

Home Depot store. Yesterday she went there looking for some of those glue

mouse traps to take care of our occasional unwanted visitors. However, she

was puzzled by the ones for sale: the package said it would trap spiders,

scorpions, grasshoppers etc–but no mention of mice or anything in the

rodent family.

“As luck would have it, the delivery guy from the glue trap company happened

to be there to replenish the stock. She asked him where the proper mouse

traps were. He said that the one she held was intended for mice, but that

’the animal rights people’ had objected, so the company decided to remove

any mention of mice from the product! He assured my girlfriend that the

traps would work wonderfully for catching mice. Crazy, no? My reaction

was, what happens when PETA begins advocating for scorpions and

grasshoppers?”