As a diehard fan of Gilmore Girls it’s impossible to watch Bunheads and not get a strong sense of Déjà vu. We have three generations of strong willed women living in a small town. We have a gruff and lovable man serving beverages. We have a main character who speaks in paragraphs and tends to roll her eye rather a lot. Gilmore Girls flashbacks aside, I like Bunheads, even if it has one of the worst title for a TV Show since Suddenly Susan or maybe GCB. It’s the story of a Vegas showgirl who marries an older man from…
Tag: political correctness
Huckleberry Finn and the N Word
The latest blow for Political Correctness sees a college professor edit Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn to remove the currently offense terms ‘nigger’ and ‘injun.’ At least he didn’t add zombies or vampires or sea monsters. Auburn University English professor Alan Gribben says that he always felt uncomfortable with Mark Twain’s choice of words so he plugged in the words ‘slave’ and ‘Indian’ to create his sanitized versions of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. I was watching Blazing Saddles not too long ago and the word ‘nigger’ was bleeped each time it came up. Since this is one of the running…