Not that I get to watch it much with a 13 y.o. in the house but one of my favorite shows has to be "Penn & Teller: Bulls*#t" Basically they spend the entire show debunking some pseudo science quackery of one form or another and it's hilarious. My wife hates the language they use, and obviously I'm not allowed to let E watch it with me. If it weren't for Penn's language and the random naked women (that's always been a P&T thing), I'd love to have him watch it. Skepticism is good, especially in teenage minds before they're filled with so much random crap. Anyway, this is all a lead up to one of my favorite quotes from Penn Jillette. After the break because it's quite a bit of swearing, but with a purpose:
[Penn explains why there is so much vulgarity on the show] You'll notice more obscenity than we usually use. That's not just because it's on Showtime, and we want to get some attention. It's also a legal matter. If one calls people liars and quacks, one can be sued and lose a lot of one's money. But "motherfuckers" and "assholes" is pretty safe. If we said it was all scams, we could also be in trouble. But BULLSHIT, oddly, is safe.So forgive all the bullshit language. We're trying to talk about the truth without spending the rest of our lives in court because of litigious motherfuckers!
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