Tuesday, April 22, 2008

trucknutz. tacky? yes. illegal? also yes.

what are trucknutz? they are exactly what they sound like. they are testicles for your truck, now available in camouflage. who puts these things on their trucks? pretty much exactly who you'd expect. oh, and a state senator from florida whose wife recently made him remove them from his, as he put it, "pimped out" truck. of course, if his wife hadn't made them remove him, the local morality enforcement division police department would have. just the other day florida passed legislation banning what state senator jim king described as "an expression of truckliness". to be honest, i'm torn about whether this guy should be in office or not.

my thoughts? how kind of you to ask. i understand some people might find these things offensive, but unfortunately, offending people is one of the costs of free speech. i know it's a reach (around?) to call trucknutz free speech and that argument gets used probably way more often than it should, but you can't just go banning stuff because some people find it offensive. and secondly, doesn't the florida legislature have anything better to do than debate the societal pitfalls of trucknutz?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I remember reading at least one person spoke up about don't they have better things to debate.

I hope they at least come up with a clever name for the legislation involving the word 'neueter'.