Devil does get the best tunes

[matgb]

Following up from yesterday, this morning's best radio show award goes to Stewart Lee proclaiming the Devil gets the best tunes. Lee of course is co-creator of Jerry Springer: The Opera, and the show, available on Listen Again, has interviews with Andy Hamilton about oldharrysgame and a bit about the Faustian elements of the Charlie Daniels Band song Devil

Comments

[ginasketch]

I heard part one with God last week. It had an OHG clip in too. Will listen when I get home.

[missdiane]

I love that Newark, NJ is such a major stop on the World Transit System. Heh

[wieselkind]

Ah I missed it, had to turn the radio off in an effort to concentrate on work. Will listen again though.

[caramel_betty]

I'm really sympathetic to the freedom of speech argument. But blasphemy is not a matter of free speech, it’s people going out of their way to offend almighty God.
I'm in favour of free speech, except when it's not convenient to me. Mr Green? That's not the point.

Yeah, this one annoys me. Free speech means that people are allowed to be offensive. They can say hurtful things. There are, of course, limits to free speech - libel, defamation, official secrets, fire in a crowded theatre etc. But if people don't have the right to offend anyone they want for any reason they want, it's not free speech.

Of course, no-one is forcing (or should force) any particular theatre, newspaper, TV show etc. to carry a particular person's words or work (with a few exceptions for e.g. political broadcasts during elections). But people are allowed to be offensive.

[caramel_betty]

If he DOESN'T exist, why should I worry about offending somebody's imaginary friend?

Because there will be plenty of dogs waiting for you in hell.

http://www.zephyr.org.uk/lj/antlers2.jpg (stolen from elsewhere, but I shoved it somewhere else to avoid leeching their bandwidth for my own ends)

[thapunkprincess]

Nobody's really in favour of free speech, just varying degrees of it.