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Why I'm Mad Today:
Survivor lives up to its name.
Why I don't care:
In the end, there can be only one.
It's fun to hate:
The FCC -see below/beside.
When Shadowtwin reigns supreme:
The act of sex will be able to be spoken of without fear of fines from the FCC. The FCC, being something
that seriously undermines the ability to speak freely, will be disposed of by a popular vote. After that point,
if you are pissed off about what you hear you can sue the manufacturer of your radio and try to get
money off of them. After all, you could never have heard all of that offensive material if you didn't
own a radio, right?
Music lost to history:
Dangerous Toys - Outlaw.
From the Self-titled album realeased in 1989 this song never hit a radio dial, but, I think it
was the best song on that whole album. I still listen to it today, and I seriously dispute the claim
that these guys were a hair band. Seriously, Megadeth, Metallica, Anthrax, Pantera, Death, Cannibal Corpse,
and everyone else that was rebelling against their parents in the late 80's or early 90's, had long
hair, that does not make AC/DC a 'hair band' any more than it makes Michael Bolton a power in the
heavy rock scene...Anyway, just click the link to get to the page on artistdirect Then the 'sample' button next to the song
in question. If you want to download it, I am sure you
know where to go.
Obligatory Linkage:
BlackChampagne.com-
Without his site, my site would never have existed.
NinjaBurger-
This is the site of the
moment. If you are ever in need of a burger, but are a long ways from a McDonald's, this is the
site for you. Delivery guaranteed within thirty minutes, and they really mean Guaranteed
Well it is Thursday so I am back to this after taking a day off. That is kind of a difficult thing to
get used to. I have only been doing this for a couple of months but I have gotten so used to writing
at least a little bit every single day, regardless of how tired I am, that it just seems odd to not
do it on wednesday. In fact yesterday I really had the urge to write a bit after watching the latest
episode of South Park but I just didn't, no real reason why or why not.
I will probably talk about the South Park thing a bit at the end, but for now I have to first give you
the test that was promised Last Friday.
Unfortunately I can't ask how many gallons of water lake Mead holds because no one took the time to
figure it out and send me the answer. I promised a test, though, so a test there shall be. It will be
just a single question and if you get the answer wrong you will be taken behind the barn and shot to
death. Here is the question:
There are 40 socks in a drawer. Twenty of them are blue, twenty of them are white. Without looking, what is the fewest number of socks that you could remove from the drawer to be sure that you had a matching pair?I like to keep my tests simple. If you really feel the need, go ahead and email me your guess. Perhaps I will award a pretty gold star like my teachers used to. Or not, such an easy question probably doesn't deserve such an award. I did at least keep my word and put a test up on thursday. Pity I don't have the time/inclination to dig out my javascript dictionary and look up how to do radio buttons, as that would look a hell of a lot more professional. Oh well, you get what you pay for.
A. 2
B. 3
C. 21
D. 40
• It has been some time since I have put any news up here and I really feel the urge to do it again
today. I am just sick and tired of the FCC trying to impose the moral view of the religious nuts
on the rest of us. They of course pick really easy targets when they do, like Howard Stern. Back in
the news again after an unprecidented fine is proposed against Clear Channel so they dropped him
completely. It is not like Clear Channel carried him on many stations it appears that his show only
ever aired on six of the stations, but still it just sickens me.
It is an AP story, but I read it Here.
What I find the most disturbing is just how small the fine really is in comparison to how much money
that station generates annually. No, strike that, what I find the most disturbing is that I am being
forced to bitch about this, yet again, it is not like the show is being forced onto children in school.
People who listen to the show have a thing called 'Free Will', I thought that Howard Stern had a thing
called 'Freedom of Speech', guess I was reading a pamphlet from some country other than the good old
U S of A. Stern had a quote in the article that I think was pretty dead on.
In a statement posted on his Web site, Stern characterized the fine as furtherance of a "witch hunt" against him by the Bush administration, which he says is punishing him for his criticism of the president.To be fair, I suppose Stern has probably pissed off a lot of people with his show. People in high places. I don't listen to his show at all, I find it to be a tad gross, but I have caught clips of it when he is bashing other radio personalities like Larry King. If he doesn't care about pissing off people in his own business then I have no doubt that he probably does say things that would piss of the President and his cronies. The thing is that the president is not much different than about 99% of the religious kooks in the US so Stern would probably be getting this same treatment if he never said a word about politics."It is pretty shocking that governmental interference into our rights and free speech takes place in the U.S.," he said. "It's hard to reconcile this with the 'land of the free' and the 'home of the brave.'"
This all really should be moot. Why is he not allowed to say what he wants to say? If he is not using
profanity, or describing beating children, or raping women, what the hell is so wrong with it?
I have listened to Larry King's show a couple of times and have found what he is saying to be as offensive,
if not more so, than Howard Stern. Then there is Rush Limbaugh, that guy can throw around hatred
for black people, call the lower class the "scum he wipes from his shoes" and I am sure that he has
said a lot worse things that I have just not heard about. Where are the fines for those guys?
So, is the FCC basically trying to say that it is absolutely fine to hate people based on their race
and talk about it on national radio, but you can not talk about a vagina? I don't get it. If I had
children, I would like to think that I would rather have them hearing about sex than hearing about how
to hate black people. After all everyone has sex at some point. While only some very small-minded
people hold a grudge against people who have skin that is a different pigment than their own. The people
who have a problem with the subjects discussed on the Howard Stern show are likely exactly the same
people who preach abstinance instead of birth control, while they have a pregnant daughter, two sons in the
KKK and absolutely zero base in reality.
Maybe Stern is right, what he is saying is not any worse than what some of the right wing radio kooks
are preaching and he is getting the bulk of the fines for it. Almost half of the 4 million dollars
in fines since 1990 imposed by the FCC (if the article is accurate).
The article goes on to say;
Stern's nationally syndicated show features graphic sexual discussion and humor. It appears on more than 30 stations — most of them owned by Viacom Inc.'s Infinity Broadcasting unit — and draws millions of die-hard listeners.Whether Infinity has cajones or is just making sure not to sour their cash cow is not really all that clear. At least they have not decided to take his show off the air, mostly because it would be all but suicide for them to do so. I doubt that people who listen to the Stern show would ever listen to that station again if they were to willingly cut his show. Again, this all should not be an issue anyway. We all have freedom of choice, if you don't like it, don't listen to it. That, I think, is how people like Limbaugh are able to get away with bitching about the plague that is 'black people'. They believe it to be true, their listeners believe it to be true, and those who don't want to hear it simply turn the dial. Yet, these Limbaugh-ites are exactly the same people that are making a big hubub about Stern talking about sex. The world is just going straight to hell.Infinity spokesman Dana McClintock said the company has no plans to take any action against Stern.
To conclude, it is pretty clear that the FCC is only handing out viloations based on listener complaints, right?
Though the commission received no complaints from listeners to Infinity stations, it is looking into fining that company, too.Your tax dollars in action. Fining people based on not having a complaint filed against them, but the possibility that maybe someone could have complained, but didn't. I love this country (that was sarcasm, in this particular case).
I had a thing all lined up about South Park to put here, but I can't find it. I hope you don't
think less of me.
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