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Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Parenting Made Easy

Ask yourself this, self-proclaimed conservatives: Easier to explain to your kids:

A nipple flashed on television, or footage of burned corpses being mutilated and hanged from a bridge in Iraq?

Admittedly, there are some things on TV and the radio which are pretty offensive and puerile. But here's a funny little thing that conservatives have conveniently forgotten. It's a free market. Change the fucking channel if you don't like it. Vote with your feet.

If Howard Stern is so awful, why does he have millions of listeners? You argue that he appeals to a certain segment, and we can do without them. How exactly is that a free and unfettered marketplace? You may not have it both ways. I don't really want the Klan marching in the streets, but if they have the fucking permits, the Klan gets to march. Free speech includes offensive speech, and if you don't like it, don't attend.

"But how can I sleep at night knowing that the children aren't 100% protected at all times from all things offensive and questionable?"

Get over it. If you have kids, and you can't instill in them that things like American Idol and Fear Factor appeal to the basest aspects of human nature, then you are a lousy parent. Raise them right, and they won't choose crap.

"What's the right way?"

Figure it out. Allah, Jesus, The Great Kazoo from the Flintstones, it's all the same to me. Or better yet, nothing at all. Teach them that they are self-reliant, fully complete organisms, and will profit or suffer by their own choices. Explain that the world is filled with a multitude of opinions and philosophies, and that some of them are scary. If you have done a good job, they will not end up shaving their head and joining a militia, or rallying Eurotrash in the beer halls of Munich.

It is not the government's job to protect it's populace from ideas. Only governments that fear ideas go to the trouble of censoring them. Register to vote, and then GO FUCKING DO IT. Write your Congressman. Nothing scares whitey more than seeing he's come down on the wrong side of the electorate, and may need to go find a real job. If these people won't do your will, get rid of them.

Oh, and did you know that the FCC Chairman is Colin Powell's son? And you thought nepotism was dead.

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