Supreme Court Ruling On Indecent Speech

Our Supreme Court, the end-all governing body of our country, made a ruling yesterday that would give federal regulators more authority to clamp down on broadcast television networks that air isolated incidents of profanity, apparently known as "fleeting expletives."

While no law has been passed to define what constitutes an instance of profanity, nor has it been discussed whether such restrictions affect the guaranteed right of free speech, this new ruling gives more authority to prosecute an instance that is considered to be indecent.

Know what I have to say about this? Fuck.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

It never ceases to amaze me how something that is so easy to turn off, and costs a good chunk of change to even watch, gets stuffed with such stupid ass regulations. Are there obscene things on the public airwaves? Of course there are, and there have been since I was a teenager. Dennis Franz showed his ass on network television without this much fanfare, and that should've been a crime against humanity. Frankly, given the choice between seeing Janet Jackson's boob, and Dennis Franz's behind, the boob sounds like the better choice.

But, I never actually saw Dennis Franz's ass. You know why? Because I heard it was going to happen.......and decided not to watch it. It's that simple people. You don't need to have tremendous willpower or an advanced knowledge of thermo-nuclear dynamics. You just need to know where the OFF switch is on your television. You'd be surprised how many controversial things you can miss by knowing that kind of shit.

And it's not like it's hard to see what's going to be controversial. If I'm not mistaken, the Supreme Court has forced these same networks to inform the public of their viewing material. We have the ever popular ratings system, not to mention the "Due to content, viewer discretion is advised" voiceover that comes with the start of any edgy program. So, it's not like people can't know. And I find it hard to penalize a television network for putting on content simply because some dumbass parent decided to ignore all the obvious warnings and let their child watch something with adult themes.

And the other thing is, television isn't going to be on public airwaves anymore. I'm sure everyone's had enough of the analog-to-digital transition shoved so far up their bums, they see converter boxes in their sleep. Not sure what this tells you, but it tells me is that unless you subscribe to cable or the dish, you can't see all this controversial shit anyways. Television's a luxury people, and now it's something that requires a monthly charge.

So, members of the Supreme Court, please stop protecting the sensibilities of the stupid. It is within their wherewithal to protect their wee-fragile natures, so why stick it to the corporates? I'm no fan of network television (FOX can rot in hell!) but even I can see that they're not the bad guys. What you're doing is basically threatening the car companies for making engines more powerful because I decided to violate the speed limit. And that's dumb, no matter how you look at it.