[Judith Anne]

I recall all those "free speech" and "censorship" cries way back when...I recall the outrage over the Dung Madonna, and the Mapplethorpe exhibits...I recall the flap over MTV years ago...

Now what do we have?

We have people saying it's a choice between the coarse half-time show on broadcast TV and Lawrence Welk...

That's just so much BS. Liberalism has degraded America in so many ways for so many years. I think it goes back to Betty Friedan--at least, that's the first I remember. Any good ideas liberals might ever have had have only contributed to decay.

[FITZ]

Now what do we have?

Yes --- it's one thing to say people have a right to buy cable and have 100s of shows with nudity and porn --- they have all that -- but families are no longer allowed to shelter kids from porn --- but there is a law against forcing unsolicited porn onto other people's children.

Also --- what happens to a 12 year old that might actually think these fading pop-stars are cool, goes to school and yanks off the shirt of some girl in his class --- he gets suspended, maybe his parents fined. Nowdays at work even an off-colored joke told in the presence of all adults can get someone sued for sexual-harassment and fired from his job.