Nicole, it's walrus. I never would have gotten the link between Pink Floyd and Animals, although it's retroactively obvious.

I just don't know enough things.

That Michael Richards clip creeped me way out.

I heard that Michael Richards thing on the radio this morning. What a fuckhead.

Racist tirades /= mistake. Ever. If you've gone far enough to invoke "tirade", you don't get the cop out. Fuckheads.

I'm going to make the leap and say that if you've gone far enough to invoke "racist," you don't get a cop out either.

Is there actual vid to the Richards vid? I just get a title card with the understatement of the year, "The following piece by Brooke Anderson contains language that some may find disturbing."

I get an ad, and then the CNN piece. They've bleeped/starred motherfucker but not nigger, which almost surprised me.

Fox network had *no* involvement with the book deal!

And they didn't pay him for the interview. If the entirely unrelated co-owned publisher did, then how could the network have anything to do with it?

Also, Borders, if you're that clear on what you're selling, and it sounds like you are, then why go all the way and *not sell it*?

Really! Do they donate the profits from sales of Mein Kampf or Dianetics?

I've never been terribly fond of Richards to begin with. That just makes him a useless fuckwad.

As to Paul Rodriguez' comment about how "freedom of speech has its limits, and [Richards] found those limits." I don't think freedom of speech should necessarily be limited in that way. I want people like Richards and Gibson to be free to speak their minds on these subjects, so that we can all be made aware that they are racist jackholes and that we can now ignore pretty much anything they have to say.

I get the audio (which is more than enough), but the text I quoted above is all I can see. That was horrific. Wait...the Laugh Factory had him back the next night? Hello.

Please to help on the train/car square. That is all I have.