Debra Goldman's Postscript: Unadulterated The last few weeks have been good to the outraged parents and unctuous politicians who are making a career out of protecting children from American society.

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There’s been an almost unanimous adoption of content-based TV ratings, the better to protect kids from somebody’s notion of unacceptable sex, violence and dirty talk. There’s also the ongoing hearings in the tobacco settlement, which is sending Joe Camel back to the desert. He’ll never entice the young into the deadly habit of smoking again.
I confess I’m eager for the tobacco issue to be settled. It’s not from any motive so noble as protecting our children-I’ll leave that to the politicians-but from purely scientific curiosity.

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