The Onion/Not the Onion

And what about the children? Does having a giant inflatable dog turd break through your window make you more likely to be a liberal or a conservative when you grow up?

I will say, I did not think the word "turd" was acceptable lexicon for news organizations. I was wrong, apparently.

Wait, does this mean that metres are the same as yards? I've always measured fecal drift in the English System.

I dunno, but I didn't find that Onion bit funny at all. It was more dreary than absurd. The turd piece, and the bit that some court allowed some jerk to change his name to Almighty Allah should be absurd and shocking, but they're not, not to me, anymore.

Funny, I remember I used to think the Simpsons was over the top.. Twenty years ago, that Onion piece would have been X rated, and widely considered scandalous. Now, not so much. Just don't watch it at work. Now, Rod links to it, calls it randy. Creeping pornification, even at Crunchy Con.

Water's getting warm, we're poaching the frog..

I need to get rid of my computer.

I'm a relatively new reader of Dreher. This post goes a long way to explain where his mind is. I may be going on to be a relatively recent former reader of Dreher.

aawww, Rod ...

If the Onion clip HAD been SFW, it wouldn't been nearly as funny. The whole joke is about two things: the moral mainstreaming of porn and the ridiculous rituals of racialism, and the humor is the juxtaposition of the heedless hedonism of the former and puritanical moralism on the latter. The iconic moments: the male porn star saying Jennica St. Foxx brought down the image of the whole porn industry ... **while standing there buck naked**; the black co-star Vance Ribald calling her the c-word; the guy in the Oregon sweatshirt saying her words were "filthy and disturbing, but in a bad way."

And how could I forget, from that same Onion "American Voices"

theonion.com/content//topics/American+Voices

cast, the middle-aged white professional guy with the reddish-blond Brussels Griffon-meets Brent Bozell beard? And the East-Asianesque dude?

Also, not just the names, but the occupations get changed each time - but you can't fool us Onion readers!