THE CLEVELAND INDIANS' CHIEF WAHOO, the Robert E. Lee statue of baseball is now being criticized by the progressive yahoos who think they know everything.

Wahoo’s critics plug their ears and run at the mouth, so they haven’t heard the news that 90 percent of American Indians say that Native [American] imagery in sports doesn’t bother them. You’re offended on their behalf? There’s a word for that: paternalism.

There are better words. Idiots and lunatics are two that quickly come to mind. Bugs Bunny's all-season epithet 'maroon' has a certain appeal as well.