The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

As I mentioned a few days ago, having seen the Swedish version of the film "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," I've been curious to see how good the American version will be, so I've been sporadically checking up on reviews of the movie at RottenTomatoes.com and of regular people's comments on IMDb.com. When checking out the latter of the two sites earlier today, I ran into (not literally) quite the member of the site - Conservative Critique. Here was his first comment about the film, as the subject of the thread dealt with how the film was going to flop: "They should've known the first lesson, R-rated doesn't work anymore. Plus america is tired of more sexually perverse hollywood executives force feeding immorality onto us. That's not in line with our country's values. People want to see family films, and who has time on christmas no less, to go see a hardcore R-rated film full of rape scenes? lastly, why would anyone see this when the...

For anyone that missed it, former college football coach and current ESPN commentator (known for being a member of ESPN Gameday on Saturday mornings) said a naughty word during a live broadcast yesterday morning. As the Gameday crew was in Houston to preview the SMU/Houston game, they saved the predictions for that game at the very end of the show. As Mr. Corso is known for doing, he teased the home fans and said something along the lines of, "How can you pick against SMU? Their colors are red, white and blue. U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.," before he said, "Ah, f**k it" and placed on his Houston Cougars' mascot-esque head gear. A clip of that moment can be viewed here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kmMdyJ89sY (and elsewhere) Corso released a short apology about a half hour later. Since that moment, I've read many comments regarding the incident, most of which were fairly positive, finding the slip up to be rather humorous. There were a few individuals whom ...