I like to say I learn something new every day.
Today I learned that the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has declared the mid-1980's song Money for Nothing by Dire Straits "offensive."
Say...what?
The song is around twenty-five (25) years old. A quarter century. And suddenly NOW the use of the word faggot is a problem?
It gets better.
Apparently the decision to ban the song was made based on ONE complaint from one person who doesn't like the word.
Since when can a single person dictate what plays on the radio in an entire country? Because that's apparently what just happened.
And no, I don't think it's copasetic to call people faggots. Let people love who they love and get the hell over it.
But there is something wrong with this picture, and it's a harbinger of to things to come. We're losing our freedoms, crumb by crumb, not even realizing someone is stealing our cookie right out of our hand.
As for the song, little fag hag that I am, I called a few of my gay friends. Some of them actually have that Dire Straits album on vinyl. The younger ones have it on their iPhones. They love the song.
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