TRAD GOPer: We’re gonna do something stupid, kid. Distract the morons for us.
SOUTH PARK GOPer: Dudes! Check out my “politically-incorrect” joke about black people! Aren’t I rad?

Here’s an even more ironic dialogue, and has the added benefit of not being quite so fictional:

LEFT WING FEMINIST: We’re for pornography and prostitution as free speech! But we’re against sexual objectification and exploitation of women in actual speech! Fire Larry Summers!

DEM PRES: Get under this desk, here, huh?

LEFT WING FEMINIST: We’re also against sexual harrassment in the workplace! But except when it’s sexual harrassment by a Democratic President!

DEM PRES: Don’t worry, a BJ isn’t really like goin’ all the way.

LEFT WING FEMINIST: Hey, wait a minute! This isn’t sexual objectification and exploitation, is it?

DEM PRES: That’s OK, we’ll set up a video camera and call it free speech.

***

The left’s stand on pornography is a confused, muddled, and hypocritical mess because of its efforts to politicize all the various aspects of sexuality.

You think the FCC’s standards are shifting and confusing? This is oppressive — this isn’t — this is harrassment — this wasn’t at the time, but now she says it was — geez, please get that mess cleaned up. It makes it hard to take you seriously when you’re criticizing people who at least just have one simple rule that “porn is bad”.

Or learn a little basic html “a href=” is your friend.

South Park Republicans will have to fight to moderate this tendency of the older establishment Republicans. But at least Republicans do seem to be having a dialogue about how much and where…

That’s some dialogue:

TRAD GOPer: We’re gonna do something stupid, kid. Distract the morons for us.
SOUTH PARK GOPer: Dudes! Check out my “politically-incorrect” joke about black people! Aren’t I rad?

A Bush administration can lose me a little with boneheaded things like this; but Democrats repel me right back by shrieking “bible thumpers” and reminders that there are few constraints for them even in their ordinary discourse (“My dog licks his own balls constantly”).

South Park Republicans will have to fight to moderate this tendency of the older establishment Republicans. But at least Republicans do seem to be having a dialogue about how much and where, whereas all Democrats seem to offer is a commitment to nothing.

For Democrats to understand this better, think of pornography as cigarettes. Starting from the premise that cigarettes are bad for you, Democrats for the most part see no reason not to stamp them out in every way possible (this is where I’m a Democrat, btw — I can’t let my principles overcome my relief that I can now breathe at restaurants). Many Republicans see pornography in the same light.

The problem is, restricting either in any way can be seen as a violation of rights, but we restrict them to some extent based on criteria involving the greater good. Democrats are happy with cigarette bans, yet believe that other freedoms are more absolute. Republicans are happy with porn crackdowns, but feel smoking policies should be up to citizens.

A pox on both houses… tobacco is a dangerous substance that poses health risks, and *should* be controlled within reason. Pornography poses mental health risks, potential exploitation of children, inappropriate exposure to children, and more… and like tobacco, it should be controlled *within reason*.

The Bush administration violates “within reason”, here. But Jeff Jarvis and other Democrats violate “within reason” just as surely when they call for no controls and no oversight. This is where you need to be a moderate, and not an extremist.

Yes, it takes effort on the poster’s part, but it works great.

I send out a daily “newsletter” to a bunch of friends, with a lot of stuff I find on the internets. Politics, porn, news, funny/strange, etc. TinyURL is a huge help, especially for people who still use readers that force line breaks every 80 characters.

I was turned on to the Comics Humor section on Yahoo today, I’ve never been into them before, it was a nice break, I loved it, take a look;

http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20050912/cx_po_uc/po20050912;_ylt=AqFbP0bcXVklh6gDfujJp480vTYC;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

By the way, we need a better way to control the length of direct links. In ten years, the direct link will be a mile long.

Take my bet. Ignorant America now is going to be so much more concern about Jenna Jameson taking it from behind than, lets say, little things like New Orelans, Iraq, deficit, Oil price, environment, Suprime Court Hijacking.

Now that I think about it… those little pesky things are so much more easy to fix than this sinful harlot… Bring me a Bible, ASAP!

My dog licks his own balls constantly, RWS. I think he can handle a little doggy porn.

As for kids, keep them off in the internet unsupervised. Keep them out of the adult section of your local video store. Keep them away from the top shelf of the magazine rack.

Kids are the parents’ problem, not mine, and “for the kids” pandering should not financed with my tax dollars.

It’s funny that the party of zero morality keeps trying to legislate morality. To paraphrase Confucius, he who protests the most, confesses.

That, Mr. Jeff, is obscene.

And proud of it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901570.html

No wonder we don’t have communications between the Coast Guard and National Guard. They had to use hand signals during ship-to-ship rescue operation in NO.

And it seems we destroyed millions of dollars worth of military rations sent by the British to help us out. (C-Span this a.m. between 7 & 8 ET, but I missed the particular press reference.) No one ever wanted British cooking, I guess. Let them eat cake.

Best line of the day – I’d expect to see it in a blog, not MSM.

Someone please wake him up and tell him he has no chance in hell in ever being a part of the SCOTUS and get back to the job at hand.