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I'm sorry, but this entire blowup over Don Imus and his mouth is pathetic. The guy's been around for decades playing the dyspeptic curmudgeon, and I've never had any use for him. If he went away forever it wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to me.
But I've seen this kind of outrage erupt, time and time again, over remarks made by public figures that are deemed offensive, and what does it result in? Nothing worthwhile whatsoever. These kinds of idiocies keep being committed because the kind of idiocy that gives rise to them is thoroughly impervious to the transient effects of social outrage. And I'm hardly the only one who knows this, and is getting royally sick of the whole cynical farce so aptly labeled the Apology Circuit.
