Mona Charen Recommend this article  The Supreme Court of the
United States is a redoubt of decorum in a casual Friday world.
The justices still wear robes. The assembled attorneys,
journalists, and interested observers still rise when the robed
ones enter the chamber. Lawyers still begin their oral argument
presentations by intoning the words "May it please the court."
But when the justices convened last Nov. 4, they were hearing
arguments about whether the "s- word" and the "f- word" can be
legitimately regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.
In a decision handed down last week, the Court ruled 5-4 on
behalf of the FCC. But the fact that this sort of thing had to
be decided by the Supreme Court reminded me of what a wise man
once said, "It's difficult to be too much better than the age in
which you live."  At issue was the Federal Communications
Commission's decision to levy fines on Fox Television after Cher
and Nicole Ritchie used those offending words during a televised
awards ceremony. The j