i don't much like rush limbaugh, of course, though he can be pretty funny. but the whole race/nfl/mcnabb thing is a model case of what's wrong with a painfully p.c. culture. what he argued was that donovan mcnabb was kind of overrated, and that people hesitated to criticize him because he's black, rarer in nfl quarterbacks even five years ago than it is now. well, you know, perfectly plausible, i think. firing and banishing limbaugh for it only precisely illustrates his point.

there are many true or even obvious things that many people actually believe that simply cannot be uttered. is that any way to run a culture? and i well understand the impulse to find those things and say them: a necessary task, and one for which we cannot turn to al gore.