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To: epicure who wrote (27082)	8/24/2006 9:09:39 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (3) of 541477

You're more willing to accept excuses than I am. From the parents. From the educational system. I know it's more convenient to expect government at large to pick up the slack. But the state already picks up slack in the area of regulating what appears on the airwaves. Ironically, when the FCC acts, or is perceived to have overreacted, free speech advocates bellow. If you want to believe that editing old cartoons actually accomplishes something, by all means do so. That's where this topic began. I regard such editing as an idle gesture. As a practical matter, if parents do not act to shield their children, they will not be shielded. The injurious influences and images are just too pervasive in a free society, particularly one in which rap artists who spout filthy lyrics are lionized by teens. The degradation of women in such music is particularly disturbing to me. _________________________ btw, if HS seniors weren't read nursery rhymes, that would mean that the lack of bedtime reading occurred during the Clinton era. I thought the conventional Dem position was that the Clinton era was an economic Camelot. If so, how come parents had to work so hard then?<g>

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