In the future, the words “whore”, “skank”, “slut”, “slattern”, and possibly the word “retard” and the phrase “train wreck” will all be replaced in common usage by the word “spears“.
As in “I can’t believe you got drunk on Zima and went down on every single dude at the bar, you fuckin’ spears!”
Or “Fifteen people are dead in the worst spears in Amtrak history.”
I like Scalzi’s take on the issue of the media obsession: http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=218
New rule: Any news station that spends more than 10 minutes of their programming time per day discussing entertainment “news” will be forcibly converted to a 24 hour hardcore porn schedule. Yes, there are sticky (hah) speech issues involved, but really, this would be the first time FOX or CNN was ever useful to anybody. That has to be worth something.
Fox wouldn’t notice much: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=fox+news+porn