"It's a free country!" I taunted my parents when they attempted to crush my efforts at expression. Growing up in a military town in Oklahoma, I felt the power of those words to the core of my being. It was drilled into every freedom loving student at East Side Elementary. Is there anything more patriotic than such a declaration? Of course, we all know what a load of crap that is where sassy kids and their parents are concerned, but even as an well-aged citizen of the good ole U.S. of A. my free speech has boundaries. According to the Art Law Library, those limits include obscenity, fighting words, fraudulent misrepresentation, advocacy of imminent lawless behavior, and defamation.

Are you kidding me? I happen to think fart jokes are obscene, but it's a staple of children's programming. Slurrs against the Sooners are fighting words in my home. I have purchased more than one crappy book based on bogus reviewer claims from the back cover. What's more American than civil disobedience? I'd love to see a day go by without bogus celebrity news flashing across my computer screen.