Maybe the point is that there is no point. That people are going to do whatever it is they are going to say and do and we’re going to live and either suffer or excel or just get by and then die and that’ll be the end of it. Everything is up for mockery, because nothing really matters in the end. Because the end is the end.

Okay, drunken rambling. Goodnight.

At the end of the “NAGGERS” episode, the big moralizing speech from Stan was “I’ll never understand what it feels like for a black man to be called the N Word. I don’t get it” – but then they come back with this episode.

If the olympics are on NBC does that mean they wont be interferring with LOST?

I think South Park is still just as good as ever. Okay, maybe not as good as ever, but still damn good. Like every single season, there are hits and misses. Margaritaville is definitely in my top ten episodes. I thought Fish Sticks was bizarrely hilarious. The Butters pimp episode was solid, as was the Jonas Brothers one with the nuts Mickey Mouse.

The only reason they start using this word is because of the homosexual connotations, same as ‘gay’, and the fact is the legacy is that anything associated with being ‘gay’ is analogous with ‘lame’ as an insult. Its not just ‘some word they say’. If the gay community all decided they were now going to refer to itself as “porkchops” instead of gay, within a week all the high school kids would be calling each other porkchops. And I think anyone who says otherwise is naive.

At least Louis CK, who drops the word fag at least a dozen times per set, or Adam Corolla, who says ‘half a fag’ just about every episode, admit that they just like the way the word sounds and are not willing to give that up. I don’t think Trey and Matt are being honest. They’re just spinning a bad habit as some revolution, and its especially insulting when they’re doing it through their show through fictional minority characters they made up.

I mean I actually generally agree with them about the hate crime laws episode, but there too its really shitty they had to drag out Token to make their speech for them.

Regardless, this episode had some funny moments, but I thought it was one of the weaker episodes of the season.

I can’t approve of using the word “fag” but the truth is that the word I would probably use in its place is “lame” which is also a slur against a marginalized group.

I’ll also refer you to this list from the always humorous cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/article_16967_8-racist-words-you-use-every-day.html

So I think the lesson I take from all of this is that it’s best to avoid using slurs against other people. But they’re so embedded into our language and customs that they are unavoidable. We all use slurs from time to time so we shouldn’t be so quick to get on a high horse about it. We should be willing to forgive and move on as long as it’s explained to not be coming from a place of hate.

I usually think it’s completely fucking stupid when some asshole makes a big deal over swear words. They’re just words move on. Maybe it makes sense to adopt a similar attitude about slurs. Even though it’s different.

Its weird how they tried to claim that when kids say ‘fag’ that there’s no homophobic overtones intended.

So that just means that the only thing that’s going to be interupted is endless Gay Leno episodes.

* I’m pleading the South Park defense.

I mean if you want to attack the olympics down to their weakest points, ice dancing and curling are still more interesting than the power walkers.

And yes, the judging, as well as the IOC, is corrupt. Olympic swimmer Mark Tewksbury’s autobiography touches on this. It’s a good read.

I’ll take LOST any day, please.