January 15, 2007 at 11:23 am All of India (or at least, the sizable part of it that enjoys feeling put upon) is in an uproar over this video depicting a man who looks like Mahatma Gandhi doing a pole dance/strip tease. The Indian government for airing the clip. The USA-produced video is native to YouTube; the TV stations say they aired it in order to share their outrage with the rest of the continent.
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According to the article, the aired YouTube clip depicts Gandhi dancing with loose women and brandishing an AK-47 at the audience. Neither of those elements are in this video.
I did some more searching and discovered that the article was inaccurate: it s actually referring to two different videos, with the gun-toting, titty-loving Man of Nonviolence appearing in this much funnier blaxploitation-style clip for Gandhi II.
Whether the videos are funny or not is irrelevant in a society that values freedom of speech. Sadly, freedom of speech is the last thing on some people s minds.
Consider this gem from user :
We will kill you if we find you anywhere.Advice for you cover your face or don t show your face to any indian or get slapped right there.You fool.
You are just a son of bitch.
Right. Because Gandhi was all about killing people who made fun of him.
Fuck ahimsa! If you want a contrary view, though, look no further than user :
Good job buddy!!
This Gandhi was a big time pervert and bastard who divided our country and gave us worst nightmare called Pakistan . He does not command any respect and he was shot for a cause. Bravo!
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Wonder why the world is going to Hell in a hand basket? Look no further than the existence of people who would kill over the message of nonviolent resistance.
I m sure someone from India will ask, How would you like it if someone made fun of Jesus Christ that way?! Please, sucka.
In my country, making fun of Jesus Christ is a long-standing comedic tradition!
As far as I know, no one threatened to kill Seth McFarlane over this. Not only did we not kill him, we gave the dude a prime time spot on Fox.
America - what a country! December 22, 2006 at 5:11 pm What does the Parents Television council have against a dick in a box? Well, I m sure you can imagine for yourselves.
But first, watch this uncensored slip courtesy of Saturday Night Live. NBC put the un-bleeped version on their YouTube page after airing the Brent Bozell-approved version on the air.
If you re not singing Dick in a Box to yourself from now until the end of ChristmaHanuKwanzakah well, just unsub from my RSS feed now, bitches.
As you can imagine, . So Sayeth The L. Brent: Clearly, the network will stop at nothing to find loopholes for its indecent programming to reach the public.
Um yeah. That little loophole called freedom of speech and the First Amendment. You know, the loophole that the brilliant founders of our nation wrote into the fracking founding document?
I guess I should be happy that Bozell is waking up to the existence of the Internet. I ve been - if not years - that their quest to control broadcast programming is cute and antiquated in a connected age. Even if the PTC wanted to try and regulate the Internet, there s no way that they could.
State and federal authorities would have to implement indecency tracking software .
You know what? I m sure that shade of authoritarianism wouldn t bother these buggers one bit.
November 25, 2006 at 11:54 am 
That s a dumb thing to say, isn t it?
You would think. But many Americans would disagree. Angelou lands the number eight spot among authors during the past decade.
She s dropped off of the Most Wanted list in recent years, with parents opting instead to target such national menaces as Toni Morrison and Lois Lowry. Wow. Tell me, concerned parents: do you shield your teens from news stories about ?
Or , a day after ? Are you careful to make sure that they hear nothing about ? These are more awful than anything you ll read in the pages written by Angelou.
But it s reality - the reality that you re charged with helping prepare your teens to enter. Your teens aren t children any more; they re young adults. If they can t handle the truth of Angelou s abuse at the hands of the world, how will they deal with what await them?
How can they contribute to improving the world if they bury their heads in the sand at the first sign of its horrors?
I haven t even addressed the horrible precedent you set by telling your kids that, if they re offended by something, it s a-ok to prevent everyone else from reading it. What are you trying to do - sculpt a future world in which 
November 7, 2006 at 5:29 am There s an article in a Malay newspaper that I m dying to read. It s hard to come by ever since it s been banned by the majority Muslim nation : The Weekend Mail gave detailed descriptions of favorite sex positions from its survey including spooning, galloping and tea bag positions in three pages of stories that delivered on its front-page promise: You ll be shocked. I received endless calls and SMS over the articles, Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak told a ruling-party meeting Sunday.
The media going overboard in exploiting sex will only worsen our social problems, he was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times, a pro-government daily in the same stable as the Mail. The paper was forced to run a full-page, large-type mea culpa on their front page to avoid having half of their staff disappear under cover of night. And many Malays are ecstatic about that.
that the Mail got slapped for its provocative take on the bump-and-grind:
Having to ponder on this very subject that has been left to run riot in the Western civilisation and as a result made waste with something as precious and as honourable as a matter of lovemaking between a husband and a wife but now turned into something cheap and tasteless as animal lust and as a pastime for those who have been enamoured with the liberalisms of the decadent lifestyles rampaging in the West!
Yeah! What he said!
FUCK liberalism! like they do in decent countries!
Come on, Mahaguru.
Fess up. You caught sight of that page one hottie and thought to yourself, Yeah I d hit that. Oh, I know you did.
That s why your panties are so bunched over this. After all, if a woman entices you to break your vow with Allah through her sexual wiles, it s all , right? I went looking for a copy of this article online.
Certainly some blogger in Malaysia managed to export it out of the country through Blogger or Typepad. So far, I ve come up empty-handed. The best I was able to find was the cock-teasing cover graphic on Mahaguru58 s blog; obviously, he can t type in the actual text of the article for fear that his dick might explode.
I can only imagine what might happen to poor, pent-up Mahaguru .
Oops. I think that huge popping sound was me laying waste to half the male population of Kuala Lumpur What I did find, though, that details which publications are officially banned by the ruling party.
Some of the books are understandable; a glance at the cover of 
Some of the restricted items are plain bizarre. What the hell do The Wiggles do in that got their Malay green card revoked? Did Jeff finally cave in to the temptation to stroke the Captain s Feathersword?
Kaiserin also put up a post responding to the Weekend Mail flap. He rates the article as tame, even pedestrian. Unlike his countryman Mahaguru, (remember, folks, non-native English speaker - lay off the grammar Nazi gig): Sure, sex is a taboo subject here but if we arent even allowed to have a proper discussion about sex.
. how else are we going to learn about important stuffs like safe sex and STDs? Wanna see how safe-sex-savvy Malaysians are?
Check out Qand A pages like Letters to thelma and etc, or read Cleo s letters on sex. I ve read readers submitting emails, going can i get pregnant if he fingered me? or can i get pregnant through oral sex Like Hello .
~~ Wake up and Smell the coffee.. Kaiserin gets it.
Where Mahaguru sees hellfire and brimstone, Kaiserin sees education. Newsflash for Malaysia: people fuck - in wedlock, out of wedlock, with the opposite sex, with the same sex, in pairs, and in groups of three or more. They ve been fucking in all combinations for centuries.
They fuck how they want, where they want, when they want, regardless of which brand of fundamentalism you rain down upon them. This isn t a choice between decadence and purity , but between education and ignorance. And with education comes freedom: the freedom to choose, to determine one s own destiny regardless of what others may think is best for you.
It s this freedom that scares the cherry-flavored condoms right off of the fundamentalists. It undermines their lust for power and control. When a moral scold vomits out garbage about moral fiber and national values - whether he live in the East or West - he s not trying to save you, or save society; he s asserting his right to puppeteer your life.
Malaysians, listen to Citizen Kaiserin. Don t believe the hype. September 8, 2006 at 10:00 am 
I ve been considering using this service called for upcoming chatcasts with bloggers. The concept is extremely cool: you record your podcast live via phone or Internet, and you can have up to five people in the virtual studio with you at once.
The broadcast is streamed live, so that listeners can call in during the show as you re recording and ask questions, make fart noises, advertise their Viagra Web site, etc. While I don t relish having to shout Can you turn your speakers DOWN, please??
! a dozen times in the span of 30 minutes, I was still captivated. The concept was, in a word, bitchin .
I first read about BlogTalkRadio , but forgot about it until pinged me this am and asked me about podcasting. So I decided to check it out quickly while it was still rattling about in my head. I went to the Web site and filled out the sign-up form.
In the box where they ask you to describe your podcast, I pasted the description I used for . I submitted the form. It came back with the following error: You have entered a word in the About Self field that may offend some listeners.
What was the word, you ask? Yes, I said bitching . As in, This weekly podcast for thezeroboss.
com is a free-ranging smorgasbord of ideas, issues, and plain ol’-fashioned bitching. Needless to say, if Blog Talk Radio can t accept a word that s bandied about freely on prime time television, it s not gonna like anything else I have to say. Bitching ?
! That s not even one of Carlin s infamous Seven Words, yo! Isn t this exactly when she fretted that winner-take-all corporations were working to reduce the Net to family-friendly infomercials?
Why should BlogTalkRadio have any say in what my listeners do or do not want to listen to? Why doesn t it simply offer me a service, and keep its outdated Victorian morality to itself? It seems like a wicked-cool service.
But if they re going to attempt to censor me and my guests before I even get past the sign-up form, then they can cram their cultural Stalinism straight up their collective hooha. I ll stay out here on the free-range Internet, thank you very much, where and roam unfettered. September 25, 2005 at 1:20 pm Two parents in Newark, New Jersey will ask the Newark school districts to ban Toni Morrison s Song of Solomon, which they consider pornographic .
Ironic point #1? They haven t read the whole book.
Ironic point #2?
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Ah, the wonderful diversity of humanity. It s days like these I m glad the Goddess liberally sprinkled idiots throughout the world to keep the rest of us amused.
September 20, 2005 at 2:37 pm 
Okay, so it s Sex Day at The Zero Boss. Sue me.
I can t let this pass without comment. Come on, baby, don t be that way you ve known this about me since we met. It s not like I never warned you.
Apparently, President Bush is taking FBI agents off of the War on Terrorism so that they can focus on something more important: confiscating your legal porn. , by way of WaPo.
The new squad will divert eight agents, a supervisor and assorted support staff to gather evidence against manufacturers and purveyors of pornography not the kind exploiting children, but the kind that depicts, and is marketed to, consenting adults.
The most tragic thing about this? The misogynistic, extremist, murdering-bastard theocrats we re supposed to be fighting .
What the fuck?
Shouldn t we be doing the exact opposite in these times of Islamic extremism? Shouldn t we be air-bombing Riyadh and Tehran with back issues of Hustler and bootleg DVDs of Debbie Does Damascus? Instead of celebrating freedom, we re crushing it one fuck-flick at a time.
I m glad the FBI agents think this is a sick joke. Unfortunately, it ll cease to be funny the day said officers show up at some innocent couple s house and go all Farenheit 451 on their Marilyn Chambers box set. What - won t happen, you say?
They re only going after the manufacturers and purveyors , you say? Yeah you keep telling yourself that.
Does anyone know if Canada is still accepting applications?
March 16, 2005 at 7:25 am Just when the events in Lebanon and Israel bouy you regarding the future of democracy, some little Mussolini has to totter up and prove that some people still don t get the whole freedom thing . Today s example comes from Malaysia, where concerned citizens (okay, it s one guy who calls himself Concerned Citizen ) are calling for a ban on a vile, wicked, dangerous TV show - a show which, if not forbidden, will rot out the minds of the Malaysian citizenry and throw the country into post-civilized chaos.
Yes, folks, forget : the .
Why is it so important that Malaysians not be allowed to watch this show? Can t people think for themselves? Not according to Concerned Citizen in Penang:
For far too long, this programme has been allowed to go unchallenged.
The two most wicked things in this world are firstly, the worship of Satan and secondly, participating in his wicked ways, namely, killing, unforgiveness, anger, hatred, boastfulness, slander, gossip, etc.
Hmmm let s see. Calling a show Satanic when the protagonists are clearly fighting on the side of good?
That s slander. (Ok, technically, it s libel - work with me, folks.) Thinking you know what s best for other people?
Seems boastful to me. Calling for a ban on a silly TV show? I see anger management classes in your future!
Oh, but here s my fave line:
Another problem with the show is that the witches have a tendency to destroy possessed or wayward humans rather than give them a chance to repent.
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