In my 24 post this morning I wrote: The PTC has certainly criticized violence in TV before. But I wonder if they’ve savvily realized that–with the Democrats on the rise–they’ll get farther in the current political climate with anti-violence rather than anti-sex campaigns. (The former being liberals’ preferred arena of meddling in pop culture, the [...]

I’ve been working my way through some upcoming episodes of HBO’s Rome, which, even though it’s taken a few critical shots this season, I still find lushly entertaining. (Next week, by the way, we finally get one of those lavish battle scenes that people have whinged that the show is missing–Philippi–and it’s a doozy.) My [...]