This just sends me through the damned roof: Two top U.S. Republican lawmakers on Tuesday said they want to apply broadcast decency standards to cable television and satellite television and radio to protect children from explicit content. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said he would push legislation this year to accomplish that goal and …
Archives for March 2005
Obesity in the NFL
From CNN SI: It’s no secret that size matters in the National Football League, but a new study suggests that a whopping 56 percent of NFL players would be considered obese by some medical standards. The NFL called the study bogus for using players’ body-mass index, a height-to-weight ratio that doesn’t consider body muscle versus …
Death Penalty
I don’t like how they got to the decision, but I like the outcome: In a ruling that marked a change in “national standards,” a divided Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that the execution of juvenile killers is unconstitutional. The 5-4 decision tosses out the death sentence of a Missouri man who was 17-years-old when he …
CNN
But of course: CNN is to become the first national cable television news network to accept commercials for distilled spirits, by running a spot for Grey Goose vodka. The spot was to have run last night during “News Night With Aaron Brown,” but did not appear. The policy change also affects a CNN sibling, CNN …
All Talk
And, as Glenn noted, perhaps it is time to ask Kerry for his secret plan to end the war.