The Disappointment of Consent

Bob Greene: In a certain sense, we're trying to bend over backwards to be offended because there's something in the culture right now that gives you a certain status if you could find offense. That's why you go coming through Beyonce or Liz O'Leric and look at a song that nobody found offensive for 50 years, say, now we can't play this on the radio. This reminds me of the great Christopher Hitchens anecdote about the lexicographer Samuel Johnson. He was waited upon by the British women in the aristocracy. They come to him and they say, we must commend you on writing this dictionary. And we must also commend you on not using any vulgar language in