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| It was bound to happen, wasn't it? The Super Bowl half-time, and the talentless Justin Timberlake ripping off the equally talentless Janet Jackson's blouse in front of untold millions of fans and TV viewers. An accident? Oh, sure! How are they ever going to top that trick at next year's Super Bowl? I hate to think! Like it or not, this Superbowl, to my way of thinking the best played since Joe Namath unstrung the Colts in the early 1970's, will go down in history as the Super Bowl of Janet's breast. |
CBS was shocked and promised to look into the matter. Oh, sure! I'll bet their post- game ratings went sky-high!
Experts tell us that a great percentage of young computer users are tuned in to pornographic sites.
| What would our Puritan forefathers think of us? What would our fathers' generation think of us? Will our children's generation be as drenched in sexual fantasies as we are? | How and why did America turn into a pornographic society? | "@#$%^&*()_+," he explained. |
I've been watching "Friends" on TV recently, and I enjoy it very much, mostly for the skillful, witty writing. But the young people on the show regularly use words that I was afraid my parents would hear me say at age ten, and I would be in deep trouble. The words are just a normal part of their conversation.
When I took a sabbatical nine years ago, some Nevada kids were fond of referring to Cottey students as "Cottey b---------" When I returned the year after next, they'd changed the chant to a short and vicious epithet which no one deserves. How did that change come about? Kids pick up that kind of language from their environment, TV, their friends, their parents. If it has currency there, then they feel they can use it to good effect, and it becomes "smart," especially if they get a sense that it's kind of risque.
"@#$%^&*()_+}," she replied.
I'm old enough now to remember when the cameramen at CBS-TV were instructed not to show Elvis "the Pelvis"s most notable moving parts on "The Ed Sullivan Show." I can remember when an actor and actress, even if they were portraying a married couple, were not to be shown in the same bed on TV.
| As time goes, it wasn't that long ago. |
| So what's next? When will we have full frontal nudity on TV? And when will the backlash kick in? |
"@#$%^&*()+{" they answered, curtly.