Big Bird firing off the f-word on "Sesame Street"? That's what could happen, a government lawyer warned last week, if the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't uphold the Federal Communications Commission's efforts to curb bad language on television. "The world that the networks are asking you to adopt here today, where the networks are free to use expletives," said U.S. Solicitor General Gregory G. Garre, could include "the extreme example of Big Bird dropping the f-bomb on 'Sesame Street' to the example of using that word during 'Jeopardy' or opening the episode of 'American Idol.' " You've got to be kidding. We have only one word for that argument, and it starts with a "B." Did you guess "baloney"? For many years the FCC looked the other way in cases involving the broadcast of a single, fleeting, impromptu swear word. That included...
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