Looking over the magic list, some of them don’t have the shock value that the others do anymore. Mind you, I’m no prude, either. But, does that mean that we need to loosen what we consider to be “decent” or acceptable to air on prime time. I understand this case is more about those impromptu blurtings that celebrities and various award winning folk are wont to do. But… my concern is that as we as a society become desensitized to profanity whether it be profane speech or profane subject matter, if we continuously lower our standards to reflect it, we’ll wind up in a bad state. We could conceivably end up with “Skinamax” (or worse) movies in prime time. Think that’s unrealistic? Picture primetime when we were kids (for me, that was the mid-to-late 1970s). Flash forward to today… Family Guy, on Primetime…with more than a subtle reference to a sex act I don’t want to explain to my child…ever.

I wonder where the last line that separates decency from indecency is drawn.