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Go Neal!

I just read on Drudge that El Rushbo himself is expressing misgivings over the latest government power-grab by incumbents desperate to be seen as "champions of family values".

Free speech BUMP!

Geeeee, I dunno folks. We got by for a good 200 years with those evil "community standards", and I don't think life was all that freaking miserable or totalitarian at that time. If it made TV a little more boring, well, ya know what? It made people get off their ass and doing stuff with their family or friends or whatever.

It's gonna be a real hard sell to tell me that, even if we went back to the over-the-top standards of the days when I was a kid (and I'm all of freakin' 34 here) where if a man and woman were in bed the man had to have one foot on the floor, this will somehow harken totalitarianism, theocracy and the end of all that is freedom and individualism.

Frankly, I felt and was a whole HELL of a lot more secure in my freedoms in 1976, when all those horrific community standards were in place.

So, while the guy makes his case well, there's absolutely nothing he can say that's going to change that one basic fact that I have derived from my own existence - I remember a time when we -had- those horribly restrictive community standards, and society was a damn sight better for it.

I mean, for God's sake, tell me one good thing that the crassification and destruction of our community standards since the 70's/80's has done for us, other than offer us more tittilating (and vacuous) entertainment. Just one. Now let's add up the -costs-.

Qwinn