I'll show you indecency

Fantastic news, everyone! Free speech, freedom of nudity, and freedom of Super Bowl halftime shows struck a huge blow to the freedom-crushing, soulless bastards at the FCC. Well, technically, it was a federal appeals court striking these blows, but the source is hardly the point. The point is this: CBS is no longer being fined more than a half-million dollars for Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction." While it seems like that phrase has been in our hearts and minds forever, it's actually only been around since 2004, which, in case you're counting along at home, means this fine has been tied up in a variety of appeals and courts for more than four years. Seeing how it takes four years to decide whether or not a giant corporation should shell out $500, 000 (which is typically less than the price of a minute of ad time during said halftime show), maybe 48 years to have a wrongful murder conviction overturned doesn't seem so long. And a 20-plus-year investigation into the Air India disaster certainly seems warranted. Good God, what have the Canadian and American legal systems come to? From where I sit, they appear to be nothing but a mockery of justice.