"Well, shit"-- er, golly waddle

I usually provide my own commentary on these things, but when it comes to FCC v. Fox Television Stations (whether the FCC can punish a station for using a single dirty word), I don't think anyone can do better than Dahlia Lithwick.

Here's a sampling, but I'd recommend you read the whole thing:

Mostly, though, it's a bitterly disappointing day for those of us who'd looked forward to hearing some filthy words at the high court. But, having run the whole case through the FCC's highly subjective, context-based smut filter, I did come up with the following list of dirty words from today's arguments: Briefs. Golden globes. First blow. Dung. Pipeline. Jolly-woggle. Perhaps it's true that the Supreme Court can take away our F-bomb. But they cannot touch our dirty, dirty minds.

For what it's worth, here's the oral argument transcript, but even I didn't read the whole thing.