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A lot of people regret not watching the Super Bowl last Sunday and some do. Namely the reason is of course the Janet Jackson Flash during her musical set. Perverts and conservatives both agreed that it was unexpected, but their reactions were quite different of course. Pervs willinging expressing their like of it and conservatives hiding it deep within them to let it surface as the reason to start another war or some such nonsense as that.       At any rate, I'm sometimes thankful as to the attention span of the US these days, since this really really isn't a big deal and it will most likely fade from the news in a week or so, with slight resurfacing in a month and your occassional stand up comic routine. It's amazing how prudish the land of the free is these days and it reminds me of the fact that when I was in France last year, as I was walking down the Champ Elysses (sp?) and saw a billboard in a window. There, right on the billboard was a gigantic breast, nipple and all. No one made a big deal out of it, except for those of us from other "hardliner" countries that weren't used to such things.       While a line probably needs to be drawn somewhere, since we are, at a our core, still animals and will revert to simple pleasures if allowed to do so, I don't think it needs to be drawn anywhere higher than the waistline. Breast are fine, both male and female. Butts are fine, both male and female. But, I probably wouldn't really want to see genitalia, mainly due to the fact that in all honesty, that isn't a very attractive part of either genders' anatomy and there is very little reason to show it.       Naturally, womens' breasts aren't going to go mainstream anytime soon, since there are people who make a lot of money showing them off (Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, etc.) and a lot of people who make a lot of money opposing their release (Catholic Church, Church of the Latter Day Saints, Southern Baptists, Unitarians (just joking on the last one.))       So, I guess overall, this is going to remain just another blip in the US media that gets glossed over and repeated somewhere down the road. I think Jon Stewart summed it up best, when he said on The Daily Show after it happened, "The real tragedy in all of this is that people have forgotten that the Super Bowl Half Time show was always supposed to just be about the music sucking."

It's pretty amazing how fast Howard Dean's campaign just fell to pieces. While he claims he's being strategic, I don't see how, after not running ads and pretty much not really competing in the races of seven states next Tuesday how he can really be in the race still.       It is a shame afterall, since he was really shaking up the system and giving the Democratic party a much need kick in the spine and attacking the Republicans where they're weak, which is namely in giving a damn about anyone but themselves and their ultra-rich donators. In Dean's defense, I can understand where he's coming from, since it would be much the same if I were to run in the race, since I tend to speak my mind and that was what Dean was really doing in the end. But, naturally, honestly does not a good politician make.       I wonder if Kerry will suceed where Dean has failed and if Kerry will really be able to take on Bush Boy. He stands a decent chance, since, afterall, he was fighting in Vietnam when Bush was AWOL from the National Gaurd, safe at home in the US of A. Kerry has a decent message and I think he stands a chance. But, honestly, if the Democrats can't win back the presidency this year, they should just fold up and not bother in this whole political thing anymore. I mean, there are so many gaping chinks in the armor of Bush and so many things are coming out now that finally, factually state what a damnable bastard he is, that to not be able to rip into that would be amazingly incompetent. Of course, Gore wasn't able to do it in 2000, so you never know what will happen.       The only thing I know for sure is that the internet has really become an important part of campaigning now due to Dean and I'm thankful for that as it seems to be the only way that us "little" guys can be heard at this juncture.