Wal-Mart Decorates Cakes for Nazis

Of course, right?  My colleague Tim Lavin warned me that this story might actually cause my blog to explode:

A supermarket is defending itself for refusing to a write out 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell's name on his birthday cake.

Deborah Campbell, 25, of nearby Hunterdon County, N.J., said she phoned in her order last week to the Greenwich ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son's name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.

Karen Meleta, a ShopRite spokeswoman, said the store denied similar requests from the Campbells the last two years, including a request for a swastika.

"We reserve the right not to print anything on the cake that we deem to be inappropriate," Meleta said. "We considered this inappropriate."

The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said Tuesday.

A Wal-Mart spokeswoman said, "Our No. 1 priority in decorating cakes is to serve the customer to the best of our ability."

Also, she said, Wal-Mart is pro-free speech. Which is why it allows its workers to discuss unionization, obviously.