Bill Maher has an idea whose time has come:
Let’s have an amnesty — from the left and the right — on every made-up, fake, totally insincere, playacted hurt, insult, slight and affront. Let’s make this Sunday the National Day of No Outrage. One day a year when you will not find some tiny thing someone did or said and pretend you can barely continue functioning until they apologize.
More:
I don’t want to live in a country where no one ever says anything that offends anyone. That’s why we have Canada. That’s not us. If we sand down our rough edges and drain all the color, emotion and spontaneity out of our discourse, we’ll end up with political candidates who never say anything but the safest, blandest, emptiest, most unctuous focus-grouped platitudes and cant. In other words, we’ll get Mitt Romney.
I’m on board! You?
Chet, I would have to look up how to get HBO if I wanted it, which I don’t.
I know about Maher only because he crops up as a Topic of Discussion in forums liket his one, or even in the Mainstream Media. Why they think he’s worth talking about, I don’t know. But when he is on the menu, I twist the butter knife a little.