Ravenwood - 03/02/04 06:30 AM
Some of the most popular television shows routinely feature murder and violence. CSI and Law and Order currently comprise 5 of the top 20. Yet a single booby shown during the half time show of the Super Bowl is still raising quite a stir. Now the much respected Democrat Senator Zell Miller is suggesting a 'pay per viewer' formula for indecency fines. Under his proposal, CBS would have been fined $22.5 Million for the Super Bowl incident.
Now, I understand where some people would be upset at the sight of an unexpected booby on their Sunday evening television set. But let's be honest, it's not the end of the world.
Category: Pleasure Police
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There's a scale you can get from the shortest path from ``decency'' to ``indecency'' in the thesaurus
decency
decorum
gravity
austerity
harshness
coarseness
indecency
and I'd propose a graded system of fines and rewards from one to the other.
Call it the worldliness tax, poised between carnality and urbanity.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at March 2, 2004 9:45 AM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
