I loved Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer! Someone with more talent than me ought to photoshop a fine, manly set of brow ridges onto one of Sen. Stevens' many, many publicity photos.

I miss Phil Hartman.

utron, how about this?
http://rapidtransit.dodgeintrepid.net/caveman.jpg

Surpassed my most disturbing fantasies, RapidTransit. Nice work!

BTW, does anything else think it's suspicious that Unfrozen Caveman Senator is from Alaska? It'd be kind of ironic if global warming were ultimately responsible for putting a muzzle on the blogosphere.

Ace, I know your post about this below was more in the nature of a general warning than a specific rebuke of the RR.

While I'm not exactly asking for a "retraction" since you weren't exactly "wrong", might I suggest you clarify now that this was Ted Stevens' own brilliant idea and not the work of the religious right at large?

Like I said before, I think they have better things to do right now than keeping you from the Bordello of Blood, and there's no sense picking at the seams of this alliance over what turned out to be nothing.

By all means, we should have MORE depravity on the public airwaves!

Dude, I AM part of the Religious Right and I find Ted Stevens' suggestion appalling. I don't think the Religious Right is quite so monolithic. Here is an insider's perspective.

I am the religious right and from Alaska. One thing about Ted: He is not my attrocity. Of the many things that he is - religous right is not one of them.

I’m not advocating censorship, but we must recognize that violence in the media leads to more violence and violent death at the hands of people who were influenced by seeing violent acts in the media. In the name of protecting the rights of the accused, Liberals have told us for decades that sometimes killers must go free (and sometimes kill again) and this is the price we must all pay to protect those rights. Do we accept the notion that increased violence and violent death as a result of unregulated violence in the media is the price we must all pay to protect free speech? When did we all agree to pay this price?

I believe the boycott is the best way to handle the media, but why not have an informed discussion about all the options, including censorship? I don’t pretend to understand the Constitutional issues and the case law, (something I share with most bloggers) but how about hearing from those who do?

I dont agree with you 72. Exactly how many wars were there before television was invented? Did Atilla the Hun go nuts from watching one to many episodes of Charles in Charge? I hear Hitler just snapped when John Amos left Good times.
Jeffrey Dahmerwas watching Emeril one day and then 'BAM' hes chowing down on his next door neighbor.

Would anything change in this world if people on TV were just a bunch of hippies chanting about peace and love 24/7?

Nope.

Censorship?Boycott? Why not just change the channel? Why keep other people from enjoying a show just because you dont approve of it?

Some people claim its to safeguard their kids. Im not buying it. Every new law seems to be created to "protect the children." TN just passed a Lotto "for the children." If you cant even control what your children watch in your own home you dont deserve to raise them.

vast amish wasteland - Changing the channel is exactly what I propose - en masse! Though I don't have them at my fingertips, studies have clearly shown there is a direct link between increased violence and violence in the media, especially among kids. School shootings were unheard of until recently. They simply did not happen. Though kids had plenty of firearms at their disposal, they weren't weren't desensitized to gun violence by seeing thousand and thousands of shootings day in and day out over the years.