Meddling congressfolk, F.C.C. Chairman Kevin Martin want to take our "fucks" and "shits" away from cable TV! David Milch will have nothing left to write! [AdWeek]

In the wake of the recent Second Circuit decision curbing the F.C.C.'s ability to fine broadcast networks over fleeting expletives, many hands have been wrung by the arbiters of decency and proponents of primness. The wringiest wrists now belong to Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page. Henninger wonders why certain "family newspapers" still resist the urge to indulge in the seductive pleasures of obscenity, particularly when everyone knows that no one under the age of thirty reads a newspaper anymore. His rationale? It's all about protecting poor people from themselves.

Thank fucking Christ for the Second Circuit. Those motherfuckers on the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the FCC's ability to fine stations and networks for broadcasting obscenities was a bunch of bullshit. In a 2-1 decision (and fuck you for dissenting, Judge Pierre N. Leval, you cocksmoker), the Court ruled that when even dickstabbers like President Bush and Vice President Cheney can swear like asspacking sailors on shore leave, curse words generally do not contain the kind of sexual context which the FCC used as a rationale for their retarded fucking fines. While FCC chairman Kevin Martin pissed and moaned like a nubile Wyoming farmboy being passed around for cigarettes, we believe that the opinion, which can be found here, is tit-suckingly sagacious and eminently, taint-munchingly prudent. Nice fucking work, fellas.