Justice Scalia: The issue at hand is not whether stations can broadcast words like "freak" or "stuff," but whether children who hear "fudge" or "sugar" or even "C-U-next-Tuesday" would be adversely affected. And then you have entire classes of kids going home and saying "frig" and "shamu" and "flip you" and "motherfainting"...it just won't do.
Justice Kennedy: Why should we limit our conversations merely to the S-word or the F-word? What about the B-word or the MF-word? Even something like the A-word which gets a fair amount of play on network television might turn our kids into F-in' A-holes or B's who don't give a D about respecting each other's P's and V's and finally we all get K'd in the Q.
Justice Ginsburg: With regards to your brief, the Second Court initially deemed the discussion about (makes finger through the hole gesture) as potentially unconstitutional. In which case, (points to posterioer) or (reaches into robe, honks breast) would be considered entirely (does that thing where you make a V you're your index and middle finger and lewdly stick your tongue through it...you know the one).
Justice Stevens: I don't know what the fuck you people are talking about.
(Here's the real oral argument.)
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I'll never be able to read or hear the words "oral argument" in the same fashion again.
OH THE VISUALS! Aaargh.
Does Ginsburg have a honkable breast?
What the frack?
If?
Funny!!!!! For a second I thought that was real.
It lost me at K'd in the Q. I must be getting old.
That was funny. I thought I was reading a transcript until I got to Justice Kennedy:
Even something like the A-word which gets a fair amount of play on network television might turn our kids into F-in' A-holes or B's who don't give a D about respecting each other's P's and V's and finally we all get K'd in the Q
Anthony Kennedy is just not that funny.
It would be interesting if they also weighed in on words that special interest groups want banned in the future...just to cut off the "whitey", "towelhead", "raghead", "lardass", "gook", ""nappy-headed 'ho", "greaser", and "nigger" lawsuits on employment terminations, school expulsions, psychological injury, etc.
I thought the real orals was kind of interesting. I think this is the first time I have actually read all the way through one of them and the justices seem to be pretty much on the ball in asking their questions, even the justices I would not think would be. They also don't seem to miss much. I have a much better opinion of the justices after reading that.
My husband recently got on my son for saying "dang!", but--darn it!--I think he needs to lighten up. Especially when he approved "sugar" as an alternative(!) I mean, for Pete's sake, I love my husband, and he's normally an oasis of rationality, but sheesh! That's just screwed up.
(This anecdote is true.)
Maybe this will help with Americans being a laughing stock in the rest of the world, because of our apparent fear of the human female nipple.
The other night I saw at least 5 cold blooded murders on TV, including a graphic one where a guy got his brains blown out all over a wall.
You better believe I'd rather my kids grow up seeing boobs everywhere, than a constant stream of violence and lack of respect for life.
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