Panel #230

Surely- surely!- nothing will go horribly wrong, unless you've been paying attention and already know exactly what the "surprise" will be. And don't call me Shirley.

And remember the other day when I was talking about crap TV? Well, the TV gods heard my plea, and decided to make things right by giving Jon Stewart the balls to point out Bernie Goldberg's bullshit for the whole second half of the show. Of course, the points he made were so bloody obvious to anyone who doesn't think Barbara Streisand is a terrorist what the fuck? that I doubt any real-life idiots learned anything. Yes, Bernie, we get it. Popular culture is a cesspool. People use the F-word. But as the exasperated Mr. Stewart pointed out, the fact that society hasn't collapsed (not for those reasons, anyway) probably counts for something.

Can we please stop applying this strict constructionist model to our entire language? I know, most of you had this revelation when you were 10, but we are apparently (still!) surrounded by people who need you to explain that the letters C, F, K, and U have no inherently evil properties, even when arranged in such a way as to imply sexual intercourse. Jesus!*

*Which, while we're on the subject, was not his real name.