Yeah, Right, Whatever

A couple of days ago, I told you about the Virginia State House of Delegates passing a bill that made showing one's underwear a crime. Well... someone got a clue.

A panel of disapproving Senators voted unanimously to can the bill Thursday with a few tsk-tsks and stern speeches. Sen. Kenneth W. Stolle, R-Virginia Beach, chairman of the Senate Courts of Justice Committee, said he called a special meeting to hear the measure because it had become a distraction and he wanted to dispense with it quickly.

“I think that bill is an embarrassment to Virginia, nationally and internationally,” he said. “I wanted to stop the embarrassment.”

Other Senators questioned the constitutionality of the bill, and one attributed the bill to Delegate Howell's (who introduced the bill) inexperience (this is his first - and last?- term).

One interesting (and pleasant) side effect to this whole fiasco is that it sparked interest in politics for a group of kids.

Nearly 75 teenagers from Surr y County High School crowded into the meeting room to watch the vote. None asked to speak, but several said after the meeting that they were glad the droopy-drawers bill had been dropped.

They thought that the bill was targeting young people (which...well... it was- I don't see many 50 year-old men wearing baggies- maybe I just don't get out enough). I applaud them for going to the meeting. They learned something. That's never a bad thing.

So... maybe the House's lunacy wasn't so bad after all.