When people lower the bar on our culture they don’t announce: “Hey! I’m lowering the bar! I’m going to do something that brings our standards of taste and refinement down a few notches. People will accept it, and it’ll become the new norm — even though it was not acceptable earlier. Get ready: here I go!”
Warning that this is adult oriented. And, in our view, THIS IS DEFINITELY LOWERING the standards in our culture. Truly reprehensible (but, then, consider the source).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.