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Day January 26, 2008

The law is a ass

Reading over the morning papers online, I came across a WSJ story about the FCC’s five-year-long crusade to fine ABC and some of its affiliates over an episode of NYPD Blue for showing a woman’s butt onscreen before 10 p.m. Takeaway line:

“Although ABC argues, without citing any authority, that the buttocks are not a sexual organ, we reject this argument, which runs counter to both case law and common sense,” the FCC said in its complaint.