Maybe you thought about the late stand-up comedian George Carlin when you learned today that a federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s so-called “fleeting expletive policy.” The iconoclast Carlin made a career  mocking rules against cuss words spoken in the public arena. He boldly talked about the “blue words” in everyone’s consciousness but blocked from public expression by over-protective censors.
The three-judge panel in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled today that the FCC policy was “unconstitutionally vague” and had a “chilling effect” on the freedom …