[asp1]

Well, now that I have been thoroughly lectured on this subject by you, allow me to say (if it's ok?), that I believe it is my responsibility to take care of my own children. The government should have a minimal role in how I raise them. Since you must know I rarely allowed my children to watch TV. That was my choice.

30 or 40? Excuse me? How old would that make me? You assume facts not in evidence.

[ventana]

Not really trying to lecture you. Just engaging in the give and take of ideas. But my point is it is disturbing that the material content on the airwaves has descended so low, and it IS our Times Square so to speak, so all this sense of being hamstrung and we can't do anything about it because that would be government interference is sophistry.

In a little town, when the strip clubs and massage parlors move in and suddenly a low element appears and respectable folks have to walk a mile out of their way to get to where they want, eventually, in a town that hasn't thrown itself over to lowbrow mob rule, it will pull itself together and the town elders will convene, write a zoning law and get rid of the crap. They don't say "well, mother and Johnny will just do the noble thing and walk an extra forty blocks to get to school" so as to protect the rights of the scumbags. They say "hell, it's our town, we pay the taxes and we don't like that crap because it is ruining our image, affecting our people, and lowering our standard of morality" and they do something about it.

In fact it is actually a very leftist notion to think that the town square can't have any standards of morality and decency. As they posit, those standards of morality and decency flow from religious ethics (which they do: Judeo Christian, in fact) and, the leftists would have it, by golly there can't be any whiff of religion in anything associated with the government. Thus, with this mindset, they have stripped every aspect of our public square: schools, town lawns, government buildings, of the very real cultural artifacts which may have a whiff of religious heritage: they now control the public square.

You may tolerate this if you want to, I do not choose to do so. And Barak Obama has put his finger on the essentially moral judeo/christian pulse of the country and come up with a winning, and, I repeat, essentially republican family values issue. V's wife.