I can't listen to the radio in the mornings when I take my little girl to school. There's never any music, and it is all sickening, Howard Stern style stuff. Television self-regulates to keep that crap relegated to hours that kids won't be watching. That has been the issue with Shock Jocks, not what they say, but that they pick morning radio time slots to do it. You can't check the ratings of what is on when you dial around on your radio.

So, in order for me to "self censor" I simply can't turn the radio on that time of day. I can't allow my little girls to touch the internet, God help us if she mistypes a URL. I practically have to hide the remote, because at the same time some of her cartoons are on there are penis enlargement infomercials running.

Nice and comfy for assholes like Howard Stern, though; a pig that degrades women and makes money off his patently fake persona. I don't hope that he drops dead or anything, but I don't think I would toss a life preserver to him or anyone like him.

I'm not interested in changing a single word of what Stern says. He has every right to be a pig, and I would happily protest FOR that right. It has no business on at the time of day it is, though.

A good example. At the end of the last school year I was driving my daughter to work. I turn on the radio, I find some music. The song ends and the first words our of the announcers mouth was "It's (So and So) in the morning, the temperature is (whatever), lets go to traffic with (whoever) and then we'll continue our discussion about how gay guys like it in the butt. ( roars of laughter from people in the studio).

How could I have avoided that? Was there a rating, a warning? Nope. Now there I am sitting in my car cringing, waiting for my 7 year old to ask for a detailed explaination of gay anal sex...

These sh*t jocks intersperse their crap with music, and they don't offer warnings before they start spewing crap. V-CHips don't catch penis enlargement and Sluts Gone Wild infomercials ( at least my TV doesn't seem to). I have used internet filtering software and it is far, far from foolproof.

This isn't a situation where a 5% failure rate is acceptable. When my little girl gets a popup with a woman being double teamed by two guys, penetration in full view, what do I do? I got that exact popup about two weeks ago when I clicked a link on google, no warning, nothing in the link description about it. That isn't something you can un-see, and it isn't something you have to see 10 times for it to "take hold".

Rights are balanced by responsibilites. We have dwelt plenty on rights, and now it is time to hold people accountable for purposely trying to get this material out there to people who don't want it.

Let Howard have a late show, and he can say what he likes.

From the few moments I watched Stern, I must agree he is a pig. Fortunately, I have never listened to his radio program and won't, not because he is offensive but his kind of invective is boring, just as Limbaugh and Hannity are boring and trite, serving no purpose but to be crass sophists bending truth out of shape.