No sense of irony

Critic to Tropic Thunder protestors: Get over it. (Scanners)

Whenever I hear about a group protesting or boycotting a movie, as certain organizations claiming to represent the mentally disabled (whom the organizations themselves formerly called "retarded") are doing with the lightweight Hollywood spoof "Tropic Thunder," it takes me right back to Randy Newman's "Short People." This song, a bouncy radio hit in 1977, was a field experiment in just how stupid people can be. The finding: They can be very stupid. "Short People" begins:

Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason to live