Today’s evidence:

Then they opened the lines for callers and I very nearly drove into the ditch, yelling at the radio and gnawing on the steering wheel in impotent frustration:

“Welcome back, I’m Indira Lakshmanan, sitting in for Diane Rehm. We’re talking about the Texas attack, ISIS, and the limits of free speech. I’m gonna read a post that we got here, an email from Jean, who says that if someone published cartoons of women, LGBTs, blacks, or a dozen other protected groups, wouldn’t they be prosecuted as hate speech? And why does offense of anti-Islamic speech get a pass in the name of free speech?”

Jean you ignorant slut, do you know that they call it when people publish “cartoons of women, LGBTs, blacks, or a dozen other protected groups”? They call it the internet.

Damn near needed the Heimlich.