Two glimpses into real-world fallout from years of over-indulging the PC impulse: Daniel Henninger’s “The East Germany of Our Souls” (from Friday’s “Opinion Journal”), and Lee Bockhorn’s “Selective Sanitizing” (from The Weekly Standard).

[Related: Magnum Force is a decent flick, sure — but it’s not even in the same league as Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry.

And of course, Ted Turner — in addition to being a censor — is a prick.]

[update: The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes begins his most recent column thus: “Ted Turner is still a moron.” Hayes wrote me to say he wanted to use the word “prick” (see above), but that the Weekly Standard, bless it, “is for grownups, not punk bitches with potty mouths.” No worries, Stephen. We’ll just agree that Turner’s a tool in any demographic.]