Opinion:

Priorities

If this doesn't send a signal regarding our priorities, I don't know what will:

A review of fines levied by other federal agencies suggests that the government may be taking swear words a bit too seriously. If the bill passes the Senate, Bono saying "fucking brilliant" on the air would carry the exact same penalty as illegally testing pesticides on human subjects. And for the price of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl, you could cause the wrongful death of an elderly patient in a nursing home and still have enough money left to create dangerous mishaps at two nuclear reactors. (Actually, you might be able to afford four "nuke malfunctions": The biggest fine levied by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last year was only $60,000.)

A broadcast nipple merits a larger fine than causing a wrongful death and avoiding regulations in a nuclear reactor.

An accelerated death isn't that big a deal, but heaven forfend we actually have something to do with sex!!!

Violence, however, is just fine.

Personally, I don't like this new math.