Raise your hand if you think the Motion Picture Association of America is a valuable service for parents. Really? Good enough to warrant egregious examples of censorship?

According to Variety , the poster for Taxi to the Dark Side, a documentary about torture abuses in Afghanistan and Guantanamo, is inappropriate for public consumption because it features a hooded figure being escorted by two U.S. soldiers.

Posters that have not been stopped by the MPAA: a muscle-bound, half-naked masked man gripping a chainsaw suggestively ;  a figure sitting in a torture device wearing the severed head of a boar and stiletto boots ;  or a nearly-naked woman crouched in a frightened position in a corner, filthy, with a bandage blindfolding her as blood seeps from her eye sockets . No obscene torture there. 

If those posters weren't censored (and I'm not arguing they should have been), then can the MPAA really be looking out for the sensitive, God-fearing parents of the mythical American heartland? And if they're not protecting the children, who are they protecting? Who needs the most protection from widely-distributed public images of hooded prisoners in the care of American troops?

Is it November yet? 

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