Thursday, November 11, 2004

It's Tom (Mr. Hanks if You're Nasty)

It's bad enough that her brother wants to become the Queen of Pop, but now Janet Jackson's boob malfunction during the last Super Bowl may result in book burning in the modern era - TV burning.

Some ABC affiliates have refused to air the movie 'Saving Private Ryan' because they fear that the extreme violence and coarse language could violate the new anti-indecency standards imposed by the FCC after the Super Bowl incident and lead to sanctions. They are refusing to show it, even though they already aired the uncut version of the movie for Veterans Day in 2001 and 2002.

Whoa! This just in - war is harsh and ugly! Who knew?!. Perhaps if more people knew that, we wouldn't be all yippidy about starting them, or maybe we would make sure we would start them against the right enemy.

The Bush Administration and the Republican Congress is full of people who dodged the draft and avoided military service, but who have no qualms in sending other people to fight a war. Draft-Dodger-in-Chief Shrub not only avoided fighting in Vietnam to serve in the National Guard, he even went AWOL from that cushy assignment. All public officials should be this courageous.

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