Thursday, May 20, 2010

Comedy can be dangerous

Freedom of expression is a beautiful thing, unless your the staff at comedy central. The South Park episodes concerning Mohammed have all been censored. These brave defenders of speech, mocking every group, culture, and religion have suddenly gone soft, impotent, and frightened that they will incur the wrath of diaper headed bombardiers parking their smoking SUV's outside their head office. Maybe those propane tanks in the back seat were for a barbecue, or possibly it was a tail gate party gone awry (damn rednecks). It can't be terrorism because terrorists don't know how to light explosives. Richard Reid the shoe bomber couldn't get his sneakers to light, Abdulmutallab couldn't get his underwear to light (I guess skid marks are fire retardant), and Shazad couldn't get his pathfinder to light. I once lit a cigarette and my car exploded and I wasn't even trying to blow anything up! So now Mohammed is off limits, never to be spoken, written about, or joked about again. Well maybe that's a good thing, no one wants to see any one hurt or maimed, but people do stupid things all the time and they think they are being funny. Just goes to show, comedy can be dangerous.

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