I just got back from doing something I never do - I went to the movies. In a theater. I'm very much a DVD person. But I've got a soft spot for cartoons, and Dr. Suess in particular, so I hauled my tail to the local theater for a matinee before the kids got out of school.

Maybe I'm getting too sensitive about looking for something vaguely gay in movies, but I was struck by the evil Kangaroo played by Carol Burnette in this classic. I doubt I can manage spoilers for a children's book we all read when we were 3 years old. So when at the climax of the movie, the kangaroo is screaming that Horton's 'speck' housing the Who', a group a different people from the normal people in the jungle, has to be destroyed "For the children! For the children!" hysterically over and over, I couldn't help but feel like the movie was slapping the AFA in the face.

I know I'm reading too much into this, but the phrasing was so shrill, so familiar, with the mindless rhetoric about protecting the children, followed by the Suess-required redemption of everyone realizing "A person is a person no matter how small." I know the author of Green Eggs and Ham didn't have the gay rights movement in mind, but I can't but think the filmmakers may have tilted the interpretation just a bit. I know it's a stretch, but any tolerance message I can see is a good thing.