Oh, nothing. But the joke had the woman yelling "*ssh*le" in her car,
causing the fancy radio to play <fill in your most hated announcer here>.
The original joke said Rush, Seanette wanted to change it to Stern,
which I couldn't argue with. I'm not even sure what his political
affiliations are, I just think he's a jerk.

BTW, Victor, re: Dan Savage - let me get back to you. I might have him
confused with someone else...

Joyce

My ever-so-humble and uninformed opinion is that Howard Stern rode the shock
radio wave, period. I never really paid any attention NOR do I even remember
any of his political affiliations. I'm no fan of Rush Limbaugh either. Big
deal. I"m learning to roll with the flow though, and it takes a whole lot to
offend me these days. Does that come naturally with age? There was a post here
referring to Baptists once, and I thought about getting offended for about half
a second, then I snorted and said, "Oh, hell, she's right."

Sherry

In this case it actually is politics. These people (Ashcroft, Powell
(Colin's son), etc.) want to shove their morals down our throats. That's
just not right. If you fing a TV or radio program offensive, don't watch
it. That's what I do. I'm happy. The people who like these shows are
happy. Everybody wins!

Funny, in Australia the Liberal Party *are* the conservatives!  

Australia's two major political parties are the Liberals and Labour,
with a swag of minor parties like the Greens, the Democrats (which are
*nothing like* the American Democrats), One Nation, etc.

In Australia, at least, the two major parties are virtually
indistinguishable in the way they run the country, despite both having
quite different founding philosophies.  As far as I can tell, the same
might be said for the USA - regardless of who is in government, the
main issues of poverty, medical care, education and employment are
unchanged and who's to say whether the situation in Iraq would have
been any different had the other guy been president. [donning
flame-proof suit]

All this talk about American political fevor kind-of amuses me, but
since I don't understand the details of your constitution and have
very little idea which amendment is which, this discussion is largely
meaningless to me.

Re: the cats.  We have a calm cat (Ted), but she is not gentle - quite
the opposite.  We also have two rowdy cats (Spock and Persephone) and,
unless you're a bed mouse, they are both gentle.  We love them all,
but S & P are *much* more fun to play with than Ted (who simply sinks
her claws in and stops the game before it has a chance to begin!).

Tish