Droopy drawers alert!

I only quickly glanced at the Washington Times this morning on my way out the door and saw two headlines: 'Virginia House approves gay 'marriage' ban' and directly underneath it 'Droopy drawers' bill seeks end to overexposure of underwear'. I laughed at the latter and continued out the door.

It wasn't until much later in the day that an IM conversation with Willie B. led me to actually go read the article and it turns out that if the Virginia delegates have their way, you could soon be fined for showing the world your skivvies, or any other part of your underwear for that matter. Madonna is looking at serious fines here. As are most plumbers, carpenters and anyone else who happens to bend over during the course of their job.

I thought it was just a crazy bill that someone brought before the legislature and the newspaper needed something interesting to publish. But nooooooo. The delegates, who apparently are so offended by the mere sight of a tiny piece of cloth, actually passed the measure 60 to 34. Two to one they thought that the regulation of a person's undergarments demands government intervention.

And what about underwear advertising? Are they going to ban Sears and J.C. Penney's bra and panty ads? Last time I recall, the models aren't just showing a portion of their underwear, they are full frontal underwear showers.

Virginia will need to ban all catalogs which show a human being modeling underwear. I admit I am jealous that I do not look like the female models in those publications, but I have never really been offended by their mere presence.

And then there are the plastic mannekins in the stores themselves. They are very realistic some of them...not the ones without heads of course, but the other ones!

Maybe Virginia can just put big blue dots in front of the mannekins and in all the catalogs...of course that would lose a lot of advertising dollars.

This bill they pass and it is going on to the Senate, which its fate is uncertain, according to the article.

This they pass. The bill that would regulate smoking in Virginia's public places like restaurants (as in smokers are in a separate room), will probably go down in flames because, according to an article in The Washington Post: "In addition to the long history of acceptance of tobacco in Virginia, many lawmakers in the House frown upon what they consider "nannyism."

Nannyism? What could be more nannyism (is that really a word?) than regulating people's clothing? If my kid showed up ready to go to church looking the way some of the kids do nowadays, they'd be made to march right back in and dress appropriately. Parents don't need a new law, they just need to act like parents. Modesty is a biblical concept and one that is talked about at length in the Bible. But do we really need a law?