Well it's a strange day in the mainstream TV news. I mean, yesterday was one of the best Super Bowl games I've seen in a while, but nobody talked about the game, the talented quarterbacks on both teams, and the high-scoring volley that made up the fourth quarter. Instead, the bulk of the news was about Janet Jackson's right boob. I have to admit, it was a pretty interesting part of the evening. Believe me, I'm never one to make light of a boob, especially when it's Janet's. When it happened, I looked at the guy next to me at the Childe Harold, my eyebrows raised. "Did you see that?" I said, just to confirm that my over-active imagination hadn't fabricated Janet's boob (which it's fully capable of doing.) "Yeah." Okay so I wasn't crazy. There had been a little 'pasty' on her tit so as not to be too vulgar - a nice touch. But other than that, it was pretty much Janet Jackson's boob. Cool. After the initial wow factor, I put it behind me. I had actually forgotten all about it until I found this morning that it was overshadowing all discussions of the actual game and was raising all kinds of controversies . . . . it's just a boob, America. Get over it. We see these every time we turn on the news, though they usually go by names like 'George' and 'Donald.' What's funny (and a little heartbreaking) is that on all the replays of the dreaded incident, Janet's boob is blotted out by the censors. I knew there was a reason I should have got Tivo.

One thing you probably didn't hear about today was that a student was shot and killed at Ballou Senior High in Southeast Washington DC. Now if this had been a suburban, predominately white school somewhere in Colorado, or maybe if Janet Jackson had NOT bared her right boob yesterday. You may have actually heard about this one on CNN, or your local news. But this one happened in Southeast Washington DC. I guess that don't make for good TV . . .

There was also a lot about Dean and Kerry, and Bush's budget proposals . . . and man, did anybody see Dean on Meet the Press yesterday? Dean did a nice job of holding his own, despite a few low blows slung at him by Tim Russert, who normally does a pretty good job of keeping things fair. Doesn't Tim know that the whole 'I have a scream' thing has been overdone, that Dean only seemed to be screaming because he was speaking loudly into a microphone that was filtering out background noise? These things happen and the press did a poor job covering this one, overall. Anyway, back to Meet the Press, Dean's no-nonsense in-your-face remarks - do I dare say his honesty (gasp, and am I really that innocent to believe that honesty is a word that has any place whatsoever in a political race?) - may not win him votes, but I like it. Count me in for Dean. I'm proud to say DC nominated him by 43% majority vote. Kerry and Edwards weren't even a part of the top three here. Take that Iowa!

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