pettiness and censorship
• nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~mark twain, notebook, 1935• take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government." ~lenny bruce
• you can cage the singer but not the song. ~harry belafonte, in international herald tribune, 3 October 1988
just ten minutes ago the kansas city star reported that janet jackson's name has been stricken from the official list of presenters for sunday's grammy awards {PETTY}. this on the heels of abc's notification to the academy of motion picture arts and sciences that it will, for the first time, use a five-second delay on its oscars broadcast 29 February {CENSORSHIP}.
a note to advertisers: i shall not be watching either show and will consider your endorsement of the oscars an endorsement of censorship... i forget, what's that line on the national anthem? land of the what? the WHAT? louder! i can't hear you!
