We wish to distinguish among (i) what is vulgar, (ii) what is not to our taste, and (iii) what is offensive to either legality or morality. Few such nice distinctions are needed with the noxious “Fall TV Season”, an event comparable to the arrival of an infestation of plant lice. One program at peak vulgarity is called the “Fear Factor”. When the Securities and Exchange Commission finds anyone guilty of pillaging a mutual fund, say, the miscreant is barred for years from playing with other people’s money. Well, everyone involved with the Fear Factor should be barred from TV (and polite society) for life. What, we say bleakly, is to be said for a program that makes people eat bugs? Siberia for you! Vulgarians!

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