"Dude, like, you're talking to ME? And my SEX DOLL?"

What? The cops actually asked some asshole Millennials to STOP waving a sex doll around as they took selfies at the 9/11 memorial??

What happened to "Freedom of Speech."

You mean, it's trumped by...GOOD TASTE??

I was talking about this to a woman who was down there at the time of the attack, and was coated with debris, and saw actual body parts lying around in front of her.

She was calm about this lack of respect, and the other incidents that have happened: "It's history. A lot of people weren't even born. Let's say you were ten at the time. Did it mean anything? Probably not. So you have people under 25 who could care less. Now add millions and millions of older people who live safely in Florida or Georgia or Texas. Now add millions who used to care but have other things on their mind."

Times sure change, and yes, attention spans are different now. Comedians who tried to tell a joke about Abraham Lincoln would get silence, and they'd ask, "Too soon?" Like, wasn't a hundred years long enough to wait to be impudent?

Steve Allen had the formula: "comedy=tragedy+time." After a while, you're supposed to be able to laugh at anything. Why, we're supposed to speed up the process and make a funeral into an entertaining, happy time, where we tell embarrassing anecdotes about the corpse. Ha ha.

The 9/11 memorial..."har har, a PERFECT place to wander around with a sex doll and take selfies, duuuuuuuude! THAT'S FUNNN-NEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Really, the big surprise was that the cops didn't just stand, hands on hips, and let it happen.