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Copping A Feel

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The Flint, Mich police are apparently a bit underworked so their interim chief has intitiated a war on saggy britches:

Dicks, who took over the department last month on an interim basis, announced that his officers would start arresting people wearing saggy pants that expose skivvies, boxer shorts or bare bottoms.
“Some people call it a fad,” Dicks told the Free Press this week while patrolling the streets of Flint. “But I believe it’s a national nuisance. It is indecent and thus it is indecent exposure, which has been on the books for years.”

It looks to me that it is more about copping a feel:

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MarcinSzczepanski/DFP

Their focus seems to be on guys but, surely, the rules apply to the ladies as well. Imagine the possible outrage at the local swimming hole when all those thong bikinis are bared.
Will these arrests stand up in court? I suspect that this Dicks’ personal vendetta will be tossed out on its hind quarters somewhere up the judicial system.

Via The Agitator who has a nice graphic explaining the rules.

Hard to Break Into Blogging??

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Megan asks:

Will it become as hard to break into blogging as it is to break into print?

But she doesn’t say exactly what she means by “break into blogging.”
I suspect that her unstated criteria is some variant of the “high traffick blogs” or “paid to blog” folks that she talks about earlier in her post and, yes, the higher you raise those bars the harder it will be for someone to “break into blogging.”

On a more literal level WordPress.com or Blogger, amongst others, are trivially easy to get started with. So my answer to her is that it will for a long time to come remain much easier to break into blogging than into print. Getting read is another issue.