April 9, 2005
protein wisdom responds to Jim Sensenbrenner’s call to punish “indecent” broadcasters with criminal prosecution
First, though, the story. From MSNBC: The chairman of one of the entertainment industry’s most important congressional committees says he wants to take the enforcement of broadcast decency standards into the realm of criminal prosecution. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner III, R-Wis., told cable industry executives attending the National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. conference here on Monday that criminal prosecution would be a more efficient way to enforce the indecency regulations.
I’m thinking that I’d like to write the world’s scariest novel
The thing holding me back is that I have no plot. Or characters. Or setting. And I haven’t yet done any of the research necessary to make the story seem real—though in my defense, I attribute this deficiency to not yet having a plot, characters, or setting. Ideas? Leave them in the comments.
