Is the middle finger losing its badness? 02/24/2003 Associated Press Even more than a decade later, Laura Kremp is still a little shocked at the gesture her mom made when a man driving a big, ol' Cadillac cut them off in a mall parking lot. "She flipped the guy the bird!" Kremp says, laughing at the childhood memory. Flashing the middle finger was the ultimate insult when Kremp was growing up, or at least -- with its vulgar, sexual connotation -- a very naughty thing to do. These days, "the bird" is flying everywhere - and, in many instances,...