I missed most of the Don Imus Issue when it was big in the news and the pundit circuit. I saw moments of the Jackson/Sharpton sharp rebuke, and I saw the send-up of same on Saturday Night Live. I read a few paragraphs here and there about the event, from the commentators, pro and un-.

And, well, maybe it's just me, but when somebody says something as dumb as Imus did (not all that funny, not all the perspicacious, rather offensive), polite people should try to ignore the slight. Running somebody out of his job — a job with a fair amount of insult and comedy allegedly built into it, strikes me as going a bit overboard.

Of course, in less modish times, calling a group of women whores who were not, in fact, sex workers, would have been quite offensive. And even perhaps worth kicking someone out of his public job. But, as everyone seems to remind us, a whole community of men do call women and even girlfriends hos.

The great divide of our times, regarding language, appears to be racial, and black men have more freedom than white men.

We could call this divide the Tough Row to Ho, or simple the Ho Row.

Hi ho, hi ho.

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