Worse and worse
: Zell Miller keeps getting wackier and wackier. An alleged Democrat, he has endorsed George Bush and a constitutional amendment on marriage. And now Ernie Miller warns us that Zell (no relation) is introducing legislation to create a Council of Decency with three ministers (that’s ministers, not rabbis, by the way), three teachers, and three media people who tell the FCC what’s decent and what’s not. He’d fine artists, producers, and networks for whatever this august bunch calls indecent and he’d increase the fine to a quarter for every person who sees and is presumably corrupted by media crud (Janet Jackson et al would have paid $35 million). But it keeps getting better and better: He’s hand the fines over to faith-based organizations. Yup, and he sounds stupid, too:
Make no mistake about it. This is a tough bill, and it