From today’s Howard Gensler column:
WAITING IN the Wegman’s checkout line yesterday, Tattle read that Britney Spears was insane, she’s threatened to kill her children, what sent her over the edge was meth and her slutty younger sister has been dumped by her impregnator. [Note to angry readers: Tattle is not calling Jamie Lynn Spears a slut, although if she quacks like a duck . . . but in using slutty as an adjective we are saying her behavior was slutty. Teen or not, when your mother allows your (now
ex-)boyfriend to live with you, and your older sister is as fertile as a greenhouse, you bear responsibility for your behavior, especially when you get rich off preteen fans.]
Howard, let’s just put aside for a second the image of a middle-aged hack in silly sunglasses verbally slapping around an underaged girl — a pregnant one, no less. What does having a baby have to do with being a slut? You don’t know do you? Well, let us help you out: Absolutely nothing. Maybe you wanna write that down so you remember it. Now, a guy with a legitimate journalism degree wasting everyone’s time re-writing gossip wire reports for a living? That, sir, is what we call a S-L-U-T.