The Mississippi Public Broadcasting programming director who canceled Fresh Air explains: "the language [Terry Gross] uses - a lot of people of Mississippi are not accustomed to hearing. They're not accustomed to hearing word ‘orgasm' on the air." [Current/ Romenesko]

[Michelle Obama sends a spray of foam flying while christening the U.S. Coast Guard cutter "Stratton" at a shipyard in Mississippi today. Image via AP]

After getting a ton of bad publicity for canceling Fresh Air last week, Mississippi Public Broadcasting follows it up today by firing a reporter who leaked a memo about the show's cancellation. The journalism instinct, it's strong there. [via Romenesko]

Constance McMillen, the Mississippi teen who scared her school into canceling the prom because she wanted to bring her girlfriend, accepted $35,000 from the school district to settle a discrimination lawsuit. She'll use the money for college tuition. [AP]

Perhaps you've heard that smut peddler Teri Gross' filthy interview show, Fresh Air has been pulled from Mississippi Public Broadcasting's lineup. What offended a listener's southern sensibility Comedian Louis CK explaining why he always has sex with his shirt on.

Today we looked at a Mississippi public radio station that has banned Fresh Air, Terry Gross' liberal-leaning Philadelphia interview show. Many cried foul. But one commenter cried fair.

Mississippi has modernized itself quite a bit lately. No longer are African-Americans required by law to wear chains, nor are women required to remain indoors. But Terry Gross's NPR show? Smut like that is still not allowed.

"Large patches" of crude from the BP oil spill today reached the Mississippi coast for the first time, hitting beaches 10 miles from Biloxi. State Department of Environmental Quality: "We can't do anything because [BP has] all the money." [Reuters]

Now that Barack Obama is the Worst President of All Time, which Republican do you most want to vote for in 2012? How about "corpulent" Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, eh? He's "discreetly building a complex political operation," right now!

[Barack Obama and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour enjoy a delicious "snowball" treat in Gulfport, Mississippi today, after looking at the horrible oil spill wreckage everywhere. Doesn't Haley Barbour look tickled! Image via AP.]

[A dead sea turtle washed up on the shore in Pass Christian, Mississippi. Fishing has been banned in the Gulf as the government scrambles to deal with a disaster that could be "worse than Valdez." Pic via AP.]

First the state was pulling the ol' Fake Prom grift on Constance McMillen, and now it's removing a butch-ish lesbian from her high school yearbook, entirely. That's what happened to Ceara Sturgis of Hazlehurst, MS, anyway.

Mississippi is recovering in the wake of severe storms that killed 10 on Saturday.

Mississippi: leading the fight for resegregation. Happy Confederate History Month, everyone!

Constance McMillen, Mississippi teen, recently caused an uproar by wanting to bring her girlfriend, a lesbian, to the prom. Well, after much legal ballyhoo, the school district caved and invited her to prom. Turns out, though, it mighta been fake.

A school in the south freaked out when an 18-year-old student wanted to bring her girlfriend to senior prom. They canceled the event altogether "due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events."

In your terrifying Tuesday media column: Nancy Grace is unstoppable, Robert Thomson is strangely attractive, a British newspaper editor is wrong, and Mississippi is king of journalism states!

After sleeping with all those skanks, Tiger definitely needed to get to a clinic, but the Pine Grove mental health facility center in Mississippi? Isn't that going a bit far?

Governor Haley Barbour hit the Mississippi politician superfecta: he's proposed something that is at once racist, sexist, classist, and bad for education.

America hasn't lost any weight in the past year, despite really meaning to, this time. Twenty-three states have actually gotten fatter. The obese-est state is Mississippi; the least obese is Colorado. Next year, skiing instead of mud pie, America. [Reuters]