We've Come A Long Way

The Ed Sullivan Show - excuse me, the Superbowl Halftime Show - censored lyrics from the 24-year-old song "Start Me Up," which Micro$oft used in commercials and can be heard, uncensored, on any classic rock radio station in the US (and on the new Jack FM network that has insidiously infiltrated every aspect of US radio).

If there's anything I've learned in the last few months, it's that torture is OK, denying civil liberties is OK, and to protect people the media now censors songs released in 1981 because if they didn't, they'd risk the wrath of the shrewish rightwing minority.

Yeah, we've come a long way.