And the real oral obscenity of the whole case may be this: Linda Tripp's lunch with Monica Lewinsky came in at $127.42.

The real offense, the real obscenity, is that even a jurisdiction as enlightened as the Twin Cities still feels free to devote police resources to compounding the unhappiness of such people.

In early Oct. 2011, the ONE Campaign unveiled a public service message in which celebrities appear to be cursing and then the message says that famine is the real obscenity.

He hasn't adopted any real obscenities yet, something that can be attributed to luck rather than any effort on our part to moderate our language.

Irish singer Bono then appears on screen to say, "Famine is the real obscenity."

"The article," he said, "is atrocious enough, but the real obscenity is the fact that Columbia University has harbored this relic over the years."

The real obscenity of this situation is that my local (Labour) council cutting my local services has 133 million quid in it's reserves.

If you want real obscenity in a museum, come see this bootjack and this whipping post.

But the real obscenity isn't in printing pictures of dead babies - it's in our passivity, which allows these people to be slaughtered.

Some people, you assume, would take a welcome-to-the-real-world view of the whole thing or provide standard liberal nostrums about the real obscenity being the violence all across the media, not a stream of offensive words thundering out of some prison guard's car.