MXC in MMIV

      Leave it to Slate to come ever-so late to the party, and then to send as its ambassador/pundit someone who just doesn't get the theme.   MXC is by no means intellectual entertainment, and it's by no means noble; but this prognosticating airhead simply can't see the difference between the media-slutting entertainment of most reality television and the head-crashing, groin-clasping dimensions of basic, adolescent humour.   Some people really need to take things far less seriously-- and with a heartier sense of humour-- than they do. Like, say, I dunno, Canadian Intellectual Institutions....