More on Senators Gone Stupid
Speaking of the sex industry.
You’ll recall that some senator from our fair state wants to infringe on the first amendment (rather than let people exercise their right to change the channel) by fining TeeVee stations that air those girls gone wild commercials. Well, now this guy is getting some national attention for the same reason Tennessee usually gets national attention: Because someone is being stupid. Terry Frank says that:
I much prefer a State Senator getting national coverage for drawing attention to a worthy debate on obscenity instead of the ability of Tennesseans to eat road kill.
I’m gonna disagree. Sure, eating roadkill is stupid but it affects the people who eat it. This bill is stupidity that affects other people and their revenues. And, you know, free speech rights. These commercials air on cable channels that people pay for. Not the big three. People can change the channel or not buy cable.
January 18th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I remember when TN debated legalizing the eating of roadkill. My first thought was, “Whatever possessed Tennessee to think about legalizing it?”
My second thought was, “For that matter, what possessed them to make it illegal in the first place?”
January 18th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
And for the record, I am staunchly opposed to images of women with stars on their nips, and respectfully request that you remove the stars immediately.
January 18th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
My first take on it was it was a sensible law.
Seems to me that after some deer wipes out the front of some guy’s pickup, he oughtta be able to field dress it on the spot, throw it in the back of the truck, take it home and cook and eat the darn thing. ‘Course I don’t know a whole lot about fresh on-the-hoof meat, spoilage from getting mangled, etc. Evidently time is of the essence. I eat my meat already butchered. Expensive cut of meat, but better than nothing. Most state’s don’t allow that…I guess because they think you will aim for one just for the meat.
Or is there a serious charge here that folks in my newly adopted home state would actually eat two-day old, sun-dried, truck-flattened possum? We used to sail sun-dried traffic-flattened cats in El Lay when I was a kid, but eat them was not cool — nobody got that hungry.
January 19th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Hey, if a deer toasts my car by playing Bambi Jihadi in front of it, I want to be able to take the remains home & eat ’em. I’ve done so before, including back when it was illegal.
January 19th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Around The Blogosphere And Open Trackback #38: Liz Taylor In A Library Edition
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