Laudo Pro Dies

"The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak." -Robert A. Heinlein, on censorship

This simile states better than I ever could my contempt for the way in which society demands that every piece of entertainment be PG-friendly, just for the sake of other people's children. I'm an adult: I like nudity, sex, violence, drugs, alcohol and foul language, and I feel that I should be able to watch these things when I turn on my television. I pay the same cable bill as the people who pollute the world with their seed but because they can't be bothered to be responsible and involved parents, I have to settle for watching a watered-down version of reality, despite a voluntary rating system and the ubiquitousnous of V-chips in televisions for the past decade. You know we're on a downward slope when Howard Stern is looking more and more like a cultural prophet. Baba Booey! Baba Booey!