For reasons known only to themselves, executives of CBS television have decided to cede portions of their Saturday-night schedule to radio weirdo Howard Stern, whose approach to sexual matters falls somewhere between that of a 13-year-old boy and a tumescent St. Bernard. But guardians of the public airwaves are not to worry. "Yes, Howard talks about sex," said CBS's Mel Karmazin at a press conference last week. "But at 11:30 at night, in a way our lawyers are comfortable with, I don't know if it's so terrible to be talking about sex."
As readers know, THE SCRAPBOOK'S approach to sex is highly refined, but still we must insist that "talking about sex in a way lawyers are comfortable with" is, to say the least, utterly pointless. ("Was that collateral estoppel good for you, honey?") Through the years Stern has overcome network censors, indignant sponsors, and FCC bureaucrats. But let's see him work his way around lawyered sex.