I had the pleasure of reading this over my Sunday morning coffee yesterday.
Mr. Couch never has anything good to say about Notre Dame. Yet another "damned if you do, damned if you don't example" of how Notre Dame is basically hated for whatever they do and wrong when they do it by certain pockets of people.
He's right we have changed...but the world as changed. When you "cross the line" into bad taste is purely determined by the individual. Some will be upset, others won't...