Disclaimer: My geriatric cat, Floyd, woke me up about six times last night wanting to be fed. (The cat food is placed up high where the dog can’t get to it. But this means that my decrepit cat can’t jump high enough to get to the food anymore. I pick him up all day long and place him with his food. Now he expects me to get up all night long and put him with his food . . . and yet, he still lives.) I am punchy as hell, so I have no idea how this is going to come out.

Well, thank goodness our long national nightmare is over. Don Imus has been fired. There’s one less crapulous, geriatric dickweed on the air.

Now, I could care less about Don Imus. I’ve never listened to him, and the crotchety, hate-filled shtick that got him fired is pretty much the same crotchety, hated-filled shtick he’s been doing for the last 30 years.

I trolled around a number of websites the other day, curious to see what the hoi polloi have been saying. There’s a veritable wave of, “That’s just so wrong. Why, we have freedom of speech in this country.”

Yes, we do have freedom of speech.

But what we don’t have is freedom from the consequences of freedom of speech.

Especially not while you’re on someone else’s dime.

You see, as long as Imus was raking in money for CBS, they were happy as clams to peddle his vitriol. But the shit-storm around this incident wouldn’t go away. And that meant that their sponsors were feeling the heat. And in corporate Amurika, they don’t give a fuck what you say, as long as they can make a buck off of it.

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