Melinda, I have no doubt you consider yourself a moral, upstanding person. Like most FReepers, you're probably a devoted church goer. Yet you turn a blind eye to the immense cruelty in what you dismiss as a "joke." No matter what your age, how would you feel if a group of people relentlessly "joked" about your parentage, or the parentage of your children (if you have any)? How would you feel if you knew there was absolutely nothing you could do about it, not only because libel laws make it nearly impossible for public people to win libel suits, but because once it's out there on the internet, it will exist practically forever? Your kids will know about it, and their kids, and so on.
When does this kind of gutter politics end? Conservatives claim to be better than the Leftist/Dems. Prove it.