Language police

While the US is mired in Iraq and one-third of our food supply comes from notoriously-unregulated China, a Senate committee today was working to keep obscenity off of our radios and televisions. Are they serious?

It is ludicrous that our society believes there are words that are "bad," and it is outrageous that one can be prohibited from using those words in certain situations. If we stopped treating some words as if they are forbidden, it wouldn't be long before the shock of hearing them would dissipate and we could all move on.

Government limiting free expression is far worse than hearing a few four-letter words. What children hear on the radio and TV is the responsibility of their parents. The rest of us are old enough to make our own decisions about such things.