Well, it looks like Imus got himself fired, regardless of the Rutgers team having accepting his apology. I think there are some lessons to be learned here, and they would include:

• Just because you've been paid to say outrageous, offensive, idiotic things for thirty years doesn't mean you won't be fired for doing it by the same people who've been paying you to do it. This is, after all, a world that takes Al Sharpton seriously for some reason.



• White men who repeat phrases they probably learned from gangsta rap don't seem "cool." They seem stupid.



• Certain words change meaning, depending on who is saying them. The "n-word" expresses respect and friendship when a black man says it, but it expresses bigotry and hate when a white man says it. The word "Ho" is a slur if Don Imus says it, but high-art when Snoopity Doggy Dog says it. If you ever hear a broadcast or a recording wherein a speaker uses the "n-word" and you're unsure of the speaker's race, the safest thing to do is kill yourself.



• Words can cause a lot of pain. Especially if they're written in one of those giant books that wizards always seem to have and dropped on your head from a great height.

And so, in honor of Don Imus, and as a reminder that there are certain things that you can just never, ever, ever say in public, for any reason, ever, no matter what, I'll wrap up the week with this offensive and crude clip from South Park:

(I gotta come up with a label for embedded video other than You Tube, since this one and others I embed aren't from You Tube. In the meantime, I'll stick with the same old label. Have a good weekend, everyone.)

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