In connection with Harry Frankfurt's book Bullshit
(discussed briefly on Language Log
here,
here,
and
here),
I forgot to mention a week ago that I heard a National Public Radio talk
show devoted to the book, with Professor Frankfurt on the line to talk
about his book and various other professors and comentators brought in
from time to time; but because of the goddamn
Federal Communications Commission,
no one was at any time during the hour
permitted to mention the name or the topic of the book.
Makes you proud to be an American, don't it?
You can use it, you can speak it all the time,
but you won't ever have to face it being named on the radio...