The Censorship meme

Glenn Reynolds turns out to be more reasonable than I expected, on the war cry going up about the FCC cracking down on prime-time MTV vulgarities. I'm sure we would still disagree on how far liberty should outweigh democracy, but I'm glad that he recognizes reasonableness. I think that raising children does that to you. You want to protect them and instill values, but you soon learn that there are lots of ignorant people that seem determined to make it harder for you.

Of course, Howard Stern isn't being clipped by the FCC, but buy some stations that were airing his show. The thing about the shock jock shtick is that you have to keep getting more shocking to get the effect. It's all built on the kind of gasping attention a junior high rebel gets when he mouths off to the principal, but it gets old fast. And most of us outgrow it, at least by the time we're past college age.