Wow. Just Wow

I'm not sure what was more surprising: the fact that the popular satire site The Onion posted a tweet during Sunday's Oscars that called 9-year-old starlet Quvenzhané Wallis a word deemed so offensive that even the most daring sites are replacing the last three letters with symbols (after the initial c) — or that the usually brilliant but nonetheless tactless Onion issued a sincere apology. No joking, no backpedaling, no excuses, no blame games, no sarcasm. Just a sincere, flat-out apology.