Monday, March 17, 2008

This Should Go Fuckin' Well

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear its first television indecency case in 30 years. The torture of the English language that necessarily always takes place in these arguments is often the most fun part. E.g. some of the speech at issue is Bono's "fuckin' brilliant" compliment of another musician, and Nicole Richie's existentialist koan "Have you ever tried to get cow shit out of a Prada purse? It's not so fucking simple." Well, that's some noble speech we're defending there, chief. On the other side, you've got the FCC taking the position that use of the word fuck in any form or format "inherently has a sexual connotation," which simply ignores, you know, reality.

Oh, and in case you were curious who was responsible for 99.8% of all FCC indecency complaints.

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