WTF!!??!!

Not to move away from the business/tech focus of my blog, but this story in the New York Times caught my attention today.

Apparently, there's a section of society that's getting very upset by guys who wear their pants low enough to expose some underwear. That style is deemed fashionable by some people, and while I think it doesn't look particularly good, the effort to legislate against it seems excessive.

"Starting in Louisiana, an intensifying push by lawmakers has determined pants worn low enough to expose underwear poses a threat to the public, and they have enacted indecency ordinances to stop it."

The story also has one of the most direct and funniest ledes I have read:

JAMARCUS MARSHALL, a 17-year-old high school sophomore in Mansfield, La., believes that no one should be able to tell him how low to wear his jeans. “It’s up to the person who’s wearing the pants,” he said.

Don't lawmakers truly have more pressing problems to worry about than trying to mandate where exactly pants are allowed to sit on a person's frame?