In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
And here I was apologizing to Scalia because I thought he gave the finger to a reporter in church. Nope it was worse (but it wasn't the finger).
It wasn't my hand motion as much as what I said, but it ain't cursing if it is in Italian"
Church fires photog over Scalia picture: Freelancer pays for "right thing"A freelance photographer has been fired by the Archdiocese of Boston’s newspaper for releasing a picture of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia making a controversial gesture in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Sunday.Well thanks to the miracle of the intrawebs (internets being so 2004). We can read more about Vaffanculo.
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Smith snapped the photo of Scalia flicking his hand under his chin after a Herald reporter asked the conservative jurist his response to people who question his impartiality on matters of church and state.
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Smith said Scalia said, “To my critics, I say, ‘Vaffanculo,’ ” while making the gesture. That’s Italian for (expletive) you.
Thanks to Italian Curse Words, we learn that though "F___ you" is the common translation we learn that it literally means "take it up your ass." Nice.
Now everyone curses, but not everyone does it while in church while being a Supreme Court Justice and to a reporter. I generally think that would be defined as stupid.
Cursing was in this week by the way: A documentary aired on a PBS station about Blues singers was fined by the FCC for some cursing. Gee good thing the FCC doesn't know Italian are all the news channels covering this story might get in big trouble.
Fining the BluesOne particularly disturbing aspect of the ruling involved a Martin Scorsese-produced documentary, "The Blues: Godfathers and Sons," broadcast by a community college public television station in San Mateo, Calif. The documentary included scenes in which musicians and a producer used numerous profanities. The FCC, citing a previous decision that profanity in "Saving Private Ryan" would not subject broadcasters to indecency fines, noted that "in rare contexts, language that is presumptively profane" will still be allowed "where it is demonstrably essential to the nature of an artistic or educational work or essential to informing viewers on a matter of public importance."Seriously, I think Saving Private Ryan could have been told without all that cursing either. Like this:
But the commissioners didn't find that standard was satisfied in the case of the documentary, whose educational purpose, it said, "could have been fulfilled and all viewpoints expressed without the repeated broadcast of expletives." Really? How do they know better than, say, Mr. Scorsese?
"They blew off my dang hand! Gosh Durn it, I lost my dang hand!"
As a parent I certainly am not happy about violence and cursing on TV. But it doesn't mean that a show for adults can not be for adults (just don't have it on at 8PM - that's not hard). But I choose what my children watch, as every parent of young children should do. My problem is while watching ice skating during the olympics a commercial for a horror movie comes on and my children see a bloody woman hung from chains while you hear a chainsaw. Please - those ads can wait to later - don't you think?
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