System Failure

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Anheuser-Busch pissed me off last week when it nixed airing its Janet Jackson ad spoof on the Super Bowl. I need a wardrobe-malfunction diversion badly.

An ad gimmick intended for broadcast on the greatest media gimmick of all time, parodying a show-business gimmick gone hamhandedly “wrong” on the same grand media gimmick’s stage a year prior? That’s some fine socio-cultural theater—a lock to generate gigabytes of stupid punditry, fundamental fuming and inane arguments the next day all across the country.

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