This Week's "News Of The Weird"

Sometimes news like this is just “2” weird to let pass without comment--thusly I chose Weird Web 2 as the fractal for today’s rant. Read on and you’ll see what I mean.
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Heath and Deborah Campbell of Holland Township New Jersey (and all I can say is thank God these two are clear on the other side of the country) have been kicking up a fuss since the ShopRite supermarket in Greenwich Township N.J. refused to make a birthday cake for their son. The cake would have read HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADOLF HITER. (Yes, they named their son Adolf Hitler Campell: his two older sisters are JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Himler Jeannie.) The store believes inscribing the cake with the name would be “inappropriate” (although the store DID offer the proud parents a cake without the name so they could put whatever they chose.)
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NOTE: I suppose I could spend several paragraphs berating the parents for their choice of names but there’s nothing I could say that would change their minds or shed any light on the situation. You have to let sick people like that be sick until they get themselves cured.
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If the story wasn’t weird enough it takes a truly bizarre turn when many people in the area complained to the local newspaper the Express-Times. Honestly, I don’t get that: the story is the sort of sad, if sensationalistic “human interest” piece that would be sure to grab attention ANYWHERE in the paper. Complaining about the story to the paper is just--dumb…
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Here’s the other thing I think is decidedly weird. The Campbell parents got the birthday cake they wanted at, of all places, Wal-Mart! Why is this odd, I hear you cry? Wal-Mart is such a guardian of public morals that they refuse to sell albums with explicit lyrics or books with “questionable” content. I can’t figure out why such a (supposedly) decent, “family friendly” business would want to associate themselves with something like this. It seems somehow inconsistent with the rest of the store policies. (Of course "Wally World" DID have a major distribution deal for Brokeback Mountain and we all know about that.) Even so, you gotta admit--that’s just plain weird…
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Think about it.