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So what do the following things have in common:

Sports and Dude Talk Radio
Houston Texas
Romance Novels
Politics
Hillary Clinton

The answer?

Me.

Commence freak out!

At 1:30 eastern, 12:30 central, or thereabouts, I will be on 1560 AM, The Game on the Ken Hoffman show. Hoffman’s blog is pretty cool, sort of a latter-day Dave Barry, with an emphasis on fast food reviews. Apparently one can listen online. I’m not sure if I could have the courage to listen to myself. I hope I do not do the verbal equivalent of tripping on a chair and flying headlong into a wall and knocking the pictures down.

Why sports talk dude radio in Texas? Good question! Based on this entry, and the powers of Google-Fu, David and Ken want my opinion on why people hate Hillary. I guess they want a Bitch to comment on the idea of whether being a Bitch incites hatred, or whether the hatred was already there, and “bitch” is the best title to file it under. Either way. I shall endeavor not to make a complete cake of myself.

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Categories: Smart BItches In the News
Tags: 1560 the game, radio

As I learned recently, you, or I, can say “bitch” on the radio and the FCC won’t come after you. But there are, as many fans of comedy know, seven words you can’t say. We Bitches are big fans of words you can’t say. From the mellifluous syllables of “cuntmonkey” to new and enjoyable derivatives of “shit” and “fuck,” we Bitches, we like the dirty language. I mean, come on. Our site title in and of itself is all about undermining the dominant assumptions about individual members of our lexicon. We love words, and we really, really love bad words.

So I’m sad this morning to learn that George Carlin, who was once arrested for disturbing the peace because of his routine about the “Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television,” died Sunday of heart failure at age 71. Carlin’s case following the arrest in 1972 was ultimately heard before the Supreme Court, which ruled 5-4 that “the sketch was ‘indecent but not obscene,’” which created a solid foundation for the FCC to “determine what constituted indecency on the airwaves.” The FCC’s cause against indecency continues today - just ask Eric Idle. Of the case Carlin said,

So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I’m perversely kind of proud of,” Carlin said. “In the context of that era, it was daring.”

“It just sounds like a very self-serving kind of word. I don’t want to go around describing myself as a ‘groundbreaker’ or a ‘difference-maker’ because I’m not and I wasn’t,” he said. “But I contributed to people who were saying things that weren’t supposed to be said.”

Aside from vocabulary and decency issues, I loved Carlin’s comedy routines, particularly the one where he talks about having too much stuff. I think about that and giggle every time I try to pack up the family and it takes an act of congress to move us around, what with all the crap we carry around.

So long, sir. Thanks for cracking me up.

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Categories: General Bitching • The Link-O-Lator
Tags: comedy, george carlin, history, radio, supreme court