Never watching the panel television show "The View" hasn't kept me from forming opinions about it. But since those opinions are admittedly based on the way the show is reflected in the funhouse mirror of our entertainment culture--where its content is chopped up into snippets to be used as parody and/or political chum--I shouldn't pretend to know what it is about. It serves as caulk for advertising. Its purpose is entertainment, but it might be Voltaire's salon, for all I know. Still, let me go out on a limb and say that Whoopi Goldberg is not my idea of a...