richard gere is free to go...

The obscenity warrant he incurred from an Indian judge has been quashed:

The judge was transferred from his post this month after India's legal experts excoriated him for behaving like the Taliban's morality police and seeking "cheap publicity."

Issues I have with the situation:

1) It's good that a judge can be taken down a peg when he's hot-dogging outside of legal jurisprudence (and a most apt comparison, I might add);

2) I saw the video and Gere wouldn't let up on Shilpa Shetty, so I don't know why she was subjected to the obscenity complaint beyond being unable to escape his clutches;

3) Shilpa Shetty is hot/Richard Gere went to UMass: Bad combo!

4) Gere's presumption was remeniscent of Joe Namath's drunken overture toward Suzy Kolber, proof that you may once have been a lady's man, but that doesn't mean you can't look like a total jackass at midlife.

A harsh reality for us all.