You Can Have Friday Night on Cinemax When You Pry It From My Cold, Dead Hands

The skin police at the FCC now want to extend their wrath from the broadcast networks to cable and satellite operators. The pretext, of course, is Justin 'n' Janet's shameful display of a quarter-inch of nudity a half a mile away in the Super Bowl halftime show, which this AP story notes also "featured provocative dancing and lyrics laced with sexual innuendo." Mercy! House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, not to be shoved out of the way when there's a camera around and a disapproving populace to demagogue, wants somebody to do something about all those awful commercials, too, which he described as "lewd and crude," apparently deciding that "rude and nude" would just have been gilding.

Comments

[mike whybark]

FYI, 'skin police' appears to be a coinage. What's this? Doing REAL WORK here? Does your wife know?

[Bill]

I think if I ever did real work here or anywhere else, there would be a psychic disturbance in the universe strong enough that my wife and every other human would be sure to feel it.