Father's Day

Another writer asks, Why are fathers on TV always depicted as dumbasses? (Okay, he doesn't say "dumbass," he says "doofus.") Says the question came from his 6-year-old while watching "The Simpsons."

Let me splain it to you, kiddo. There are two reasons. First, the creative people behind television mostly had cold, disapproving fathers who scorned their creativity; this is their revenge. Second, men rule the world anyway, and this is a simple, if ineffective, way of balancing out the energy.