Mencken famously described puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy,” and the Internet, which seeks to connect everyone everywhere, seems to have provided the ideal instrument for feeding those fears. The FCC levied a record $3.3 million fine on CBS affiliates for airing a suggestive “teen orgy” scene in the show Without a Trace in late 2004. But it now turns out that every one of the 4,211 complaints the agency got were passed along by the Parents Television Council, the group of professional bluenoses who round up all the most salacious scenes aired on network TV (only so you can see just how bad it is, of course) and who , as Jacob Sullum noted in our March ish, are responsible for the vast majority of complaints the FCC gets. In fact, the agency got no complaints when the episode in question first aired, nor was there any outcry at first when the episode re-aired. It was only almost two weeks later, when PTC mentioned the episode in one of its e-mail alerts, that the complaints started rolling in. In other words, nobody who actually watched the show cared enough to complain (not that we should especially care if they did, mind you): The only people who wrote in were folks who troll around looking for things to get offended at. It must be tough living in a culture so saturated with this unavoidable smut. (Hat tip: Boing Boing.)