Just to get back to the mundane, and to remind folks here what people in the world are talking about while we debate the fine points of Deepak Chopra's ethics, America is going four-letter- word crazy again.
NBC is doing the apology dance because a guest on its "Today" show used what it calls a "vulgar slang term" on the air. They're beating the guest up one side and down the other for daring to use this horrible term. And, given that the guest in question was Jane Fonda, right-wingers who still hate her from the Vietnam era are denouncing her in the press. (Which I think is doubly funny, because they're demonizing her for using the same term they used to call her.) Anyway, the sheer Puritan absurdity of it, living as I do in a more civilized land, got me curious, so I looked up the clip in question, and discovered the rather innocent *context* in which Jane spoke the word: http://gawker.com/356442/jane-fonda-to-america-c-u-next-tuesday The whole thing makes me happy I live in a country where women can still safely call a coño a coño.
