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Nickelodeon, the kids’ TV channel, apparently sees no problem with directing children to the Twitter feed of one of its voiceover stars, Jason Biggs – even if Biggs tweets reprehensible things about the anuses of conservative political women like Janna Ryan, wife of VP candidate Paul Ryan. It would be difficult to describe Biggs’ tweets as anything other than the worst sort of cyber bullying. But Nickelodeon doesn’t seem to care.

"Late last week during the Republican convention, we learned that "American Pie" star Jason Biggs isn't anything like his onscreen persona. That sweet, good-hearted character is in reality played by a vicious, unfunny pig who obviously has some issues with women. Free speech is a lovely concept worth defending and no one's telling Biggs to shut up (I rather like how free speech allows the wicked among us to reveal their true selves). But "free" doesn't mean "consequence free," and not only has the blowback against Biggs been such that the coward deleted the offending tweets about Paul Ryan's wife,...

An advocate of partially privatizing Social Security, nominated by President Bush to become deputy director of the half-billion-dollar retirement income program, was rejected Wednesday by Senate Democrats. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said his panel will neither consider nor hold hearings on Bush's choice of Andrew Biggs, who was an outspoken enthusiast behind the president's ill-fated plan two years ago to let people divert some of their Social Security taxes into private investment accounts. "It's a bad idea to give the No. 2 position at the Social Security Administration to someone who still supports that failed proposal," Baucus...