Don't lie. You all wish you could have been there too. Ensconced in comforting darkness, settled into the ergonomically pleasing chairs that surely cost more than your kid's college education, sharing the air of high intellect at the annual TED forum, a conference that brings together thinkers, creators, and other visionaries to talk about, thinking, creating, and envisioning.  You all wish you could have felt the temperature drop and the earth's rotation slow to a dull whimper when comedienne Sarah Silverman launched into a bit about adopting a mentally disabled child. (You can read her bit here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/15/sarah-silverman-in-twitte_n_462769.html)

Not to be outdone by her own brashness, Silverman repeatedly used a common and derogatory term much lofted about by grade school children and, selectively, Sarah Palin to describe this child that drew fury from TED organizer Chris Anderson and a good portion of the general poplace. 

You would think Sarah had learned her lesson.  You would think she might say "Gosh darn it America, I see I've hurt your feelings and I'm so golly darn sorry about it that I don't know what to do! I am so very sorry and just to show that there's no hard feelings, I'm going to hold this baby ducky until we all feel better!" You would think Sarah isn't, like, a comedienne who, kind of, like believes in shocking us out of our comfort zones with an approach to humor that is both juvenile and wickedly smart.

And to prove it, Sarah wades back into taboo central with this week's episode of The Sarah Silverman Program: (the description taken directly off the show webiste)