Bono, Nicole Richie, and the F-word

Posted February 4, 2004, 4:08 p.m.

An interesting commentary piece by Julie Hilden of FindLaw.com is available over on CNN.com. It’s about FCC regulations regarding broadcast indecency.

This subject is quite topical, considering all the bru-ha-ha about Janet Jackson’s momentarily-exposed breast.

Oh, the horrors! Society is disintegrating! Fire and brimstone! Man the bunkers!

[This is something we call SARCASM.]

Regardless, I generally agree with the argument that Hilden puts forth. Give it a read!

Bono, Nicole Richie, and the F-word (CNN.com).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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