I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.
Scott SimonI take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.
Scott SimonI know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’
Scott Simon