I curse and kvetch just as much as the next guy, but I applaud this young man for standing up for what he believes in.  I hope he will be an inspiration to those in his school and community.

Kudos to him and his family.  Give 'em heck, McKay!

For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.  As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.

Ian Anderson "Wind up"

So.. Is CNN, MSNBC or even Al Jazeera defending or playing down those death threats? If so, I'm on the bandwagon to bust them. From what I've seen, any show he's been on, they are lauding and defending the kid. Just because someone uses profanity in records (or books or movies or pictures), it doesn't mean they would support death threats or reprisal against someone trying to teach the world better adjectives.
Profanity is a useful tool - SOMETIMES. Its not a fit all adjective.

I think pop culture is headed down the tubes not because of profanity, but because of too little talent and too much sophisticated marketing. Cuss words or not, Britney Spears should NOT be a star. Cuss words or not, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson (etc.) ARE artists.

People are animals.

....it's someone who tries to live a good and moral life.  Absolutely no one is perfect but we have this insane hatred in this world of those who try not to be vulgar pimps and perverts.  It's as if the haters say "how dare you try to be better than me, that can't stand".  If you want a really good example of this, look at Sarah Palin.  Now I'm not about to put Sarah Palin on a pedestal but there's a woman who is doing the absolute best to live decently.  I know she claims no sainthood that's for sure but she's positively HATED for not aborting a child she knew was going to have Down's syndrome.  That's a mortal sin to some.

I hope this kid does well.  Good for him.

"What you can not enforce, do not command" -Sophocles-

60,000 people went out of their way to send this kid a "negative" email because they can't stand him thinking it's impolite to use vile language in everyday speech.

This is what we've come to? 

No change here, I see.

To avoid bankruptcy, Rome's budget must be balanced; debt reduced; arrogance of authorities moderated; payments to foreign governments reduced; people must learn to work, instead of living on public dole: Cicero. 63BC

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I don't know if they're DimocratsJanuary 31, 2009 - 20:02 ET by nwahs

I suspect they are just criminals.

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Can't think of a single criminal that was a conservative.

....a week or so ago.

A pretty impressive young man.

The GOP could learn a few lessons from him regarding sticking to principles--no yelling, no hysteria, just calm reasoned sticking to principle.

I agree, it's absolutely shameful and disgraceful to threaten a kid's life based on his own prerogative  to help better the community in his own way. I disagree with him, so I'm not joining his club, but to threaten his life over it? This isn't a toothless government agency like the FCC, this is a kid's life we're talking about.

Still though, I find it rather pernicious to juxtapose this issue with the non-issue of Britney Spears releasing a song that seems to imply the word "f**k" (I refuse to say that ridiculous euphemism "f-bomb." You're an idiot if you do that because then you don't even know what it is you are talking about anymore. I think it is perfectly possible to have an academic conversation about the usage of the word "f**k" without having to refer to is as, ugh, "f-bomb".) I had no idea that was what the title seemed to imply, and I get the feeling that most people had no idea either until these paranoid, schizophrenic sociopaths find out about it only after extensively searching every single nook and cranny within the whole media to find something they object to. Michael Medved is right: there is NO moral decline in America, so stop whining about it.

And another thing: If he's so worried about an implied utterance of the word "f**k" in the title of a song, then why doesn't he do one better and actually go after a song that actually has that word in it? I'm talking, of course, about the Who song from 1977, "Who Are You?". You know, the one that's one of the CSI theme songs? The one that has been a classic rock staple since the 70s? One of the lines is, "Whothef**kareYOU?!" Of course, it's said so fast that you can barely notice it. And nobody ever complains about it unless it's played live on TV, like the time it was played at Live 8 a few years ago.

So if you are worried about gutter language, go look for an actual example and not some double entendre. Or should we also go through those kinds of songs as well? I have a lyric from the 1950s song "Shake, Rattle and Roll" that goes "I'm like a one-eyed cat peeping inside a pet store." Maybe we should go after that, too, perhaps?