Monday night I was sitting at the computer updating MeZine with every piece of electronic equipment on in my apartment. I have everything on at once because I’ve been too lazy to change the light bulb in my overhead light and if my computer, TV, clock radio, microwave, and counter lights are all on at the same time, I won’t be in complete darkness. I was in the middle of trying to figure out how to indent using computer code (and failing, mind you) when I unwittingly heard the sound of a long career come to a grinding halt. Live.

I know I’m about to drop a couple cool notches by this disclosure, but I watch the show, Medium. I could use the excuse that I don’t have cable and don’t have a lot of options, but even if I had 300+ channels, I’d STILL watch Medium. I really like it. Shut up.

So, I’m simultaneously failing to write effective code for you ungrateful whores and waiting for Medium to start when a teaser for the news came on. Glad for the distraction, even if it’s a lame news promo, I tuned in. I was nodding along to the clip about inflated grocery prices (I almost spent $8 on Post cereal last week), and without warning the F bomb was dropped. ON THE NEWS.

Those of you who know me know I am on close terms with the F word. I think of it less as a cuss word and more as a tool. It is a excellent word to use when you want to add emphasis of a specific nature. For example, “are you kidding?’ is something you say when you are told something you don’t believe. “Are you FUCKING kidding?” is something you say when you’ve opened the door to your apartment to thirty drunk gremlins having a food fight while wearing your underwear. It’s all about the emphasis.

However, this particular F bomb was not amusing. I’m not a prude and I don’t think by hearing the word children will grow up to become drug addicts and hookers. But the tone of the word was virulent. The woman who said it sounded nasty and hateful. It was a tone that didn’t belong in the workplace, let alone on television.

Some of her supporters are like, “So? It was the F word… like YOU’VE never said it.” But that’s like saying Bill Clinton was impeached for cheating on his wife. Saying the word isn’t really the point, it’s saying it on network television. While we await her punishment and inflated FCC fines to come in, you can check it out for yourself. I read that her rant was a reaction to a production mistake by showing the wrong clip. If so, I’m going to count my blessings that she isn’t overseeing my computer code-writing skills.