The Nipple Effect. Better late than never, but I have to add my two cents on the Janet Jackson Super Bowl nipple controversy. Missed it when it happened, so it's thanks to the Drudge Report that I got a "close-up look" at things. At least that site is good for something! Several points to make:

1) Relax, folks. It's just a nipple. Everyone has them. Although few put that kind of "adornment" on them. Maybe they need a new rating for this type of thing: BP for "body parts."

2)Why isn't a fuss being made over Nelly or P. Diddy, or Doowhaddy, or whatshisname grabbing his crotch repeatedly? This is acceptable behavior? Maybe he had a rash. Also, I wasn't thrilled by Kid Rock's American flag pancho.

3) It was cut away from so quickly, few people actually saw it. You needed a big screen TV to get a good look anyway. Only one person in our group of about 8 watching at the time saw it.

4) Non-premeditated, my hairy butt! The lyrics are "I'm going to get you naked before the end of this song." Why wasn't she wearing a bra? Does she always wear that little sun thingy? I doubt it. Technically, that is a pasty, and I suppose it may have been put there to legally prevent her from "indecent exposure" charges. Of course CBS knew about it. Otherwise they would have lingered on it in shock. They knew when to cut away.

5) It was prime time, during the most watched show of the year, when people of all ages are viewing. Not in the best of taste.
But what about "good taste"? How is a little bit o' boob any worse than commercials featuring guys getting bitten in the groinage, horse farts toasting carriage riders, Scotsmen cooling their privates, and Mike Ditka tossing a football through a tire (Come on, you don't have to be Freud to figure that one out!)? Good taste has departed us, friends. It is gone, kaput, fini. This is prime time mind you. Twenty years ago, the FCC probably would have fined CBS for all this stuff automatically. Now its no big deal. If this is how far we've sunk, then Janet's breast is just one more step into the abyss.

6) Remember CBS's track record for bad decisions. This is the network that spawned "Survivor" and the whole reality show fad, lowering the bar for programming to new depths. They refused to run that movie they felt was critical of Ronald Reagan. They also refused to run a commercial critical of Bush during the game. Oh yeah, and they used to run Matlock!

7) I think CBS predicted that the game would be a dull, long, blow-out, so they had to come up with something for people to talk about on Monday. Face it, what did you talk about first on Monday? The actual game? Of course not. Granted, it turned out to be one of the best Super Bowl games ever, and it will forever be overshadowed by a breast. What a shame.
Enuff said!