Madonna’s nipple, take it or leave it.

In an effort to take our minds off the sordid trial of pedophile Jerry Sandusky, it seems that every national news website is bombarding us today with the hottest story in cyberspace: MADONNA’S NIPPLE. Apparently she flashed one of her 53-year-old boobies to an audience of 55,000 in Istanbul and followed it up two days later by mooning the crowd in Rome.

Just between us, I think Madonna might be a little too old for the horseshit she used to pull off 25 years ago, mostly because she looks a little worn out and flabby and — even worse — her children are on tour with her now. But as much as Madonna might be pushing her luck, the following Holy Crap Gallery offers some outrageous then-and-now photos of the world’s biggest rock stars from the 1960s.

Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, who never was much to look at, anyway, is monumentally worse at 71 with the cascading chins and weird hats, and beautiful Grace Slick has morphed into a plump bingo grandma in polyester. Nobody standing next to her at the supermarket checkout would ever in a million years guess she was once the queen of acid rock who sang with Jefferson Airplane. And in case you were (literally) born yesterday, Keith Richard, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts were three of the original Rolling Stones. Richard and Jagger could haunt a house; Watts looks like he joined a yacht club.

And now it’s time to fold a mountain of socks and join Sam in the family room for a couple of good movies. Thank you for reading this.