Earmuffs! What are we shielding our kids from?

Yes, that's right, this is the shield you usually see covering racy headlines on Cosmo. This week Harps grocery stores of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri were protecting their shoppers' children from ...

(Drumroll, please)

... Elton John's baby.

Somebody should tell them it's 2011 already. I can think about SO MANY things I'd be less comfortable explaining to my son than a baby with two dads:

Thanks to Matt Pasetsky's Cover Awards for originally posting on this and to Charles Apple for re-blogging about it. I share in your general shock of this chain's treatment of this magazine cover.