...and Anderson Cooper was OK with being used as a prop by Kathy Griffin, well, OK. Performance art is art, as long as the performance part is understood by all members of the cast.

He did keep saying no, though, which really bothered me. No should mean no regardless of who is drawing the line. I guess he could have slugged her to make her stop instead of just physically restraining her, if he had wanted to. I hope he got a lot of money.

When I was a little girl, I was tickled until I almost couldn't breathe. I begged the person tickling me to stop between the laughing. He was bigger than me and sitting on me, so I couldn't get away. He thought it was funny to make me laugh so much. Once I stopped laughing, it was no longer fun for him, so I was released. Since then, I can't laugh when someone tickles me, but I do startle easily when touched by surprise, and I'm liable to hit anybody who does so. The image of someone being touched like an object who is obviously uncomfortable with it is not something I can bear.

I guess torment, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.