The Perfect Cheer and Big Brother

Remember that Texas state legislator who went to a basketball game and subsequently wrote a bill making "suggestive" cheerleader dancing illegal? Well, his stupid piece of legislation actually passed the first reading and is on it's way to the full house for a vote.

And, in further stupid suburban news, our quaint little town of Flower Mound is hoping to institute a program called N.I.C.E. (Neighbors Involved in Code Enforcement, get it?) in which they hope to involve volunteers to send "friendly post cards" to help keep up with "minor code violations" in which you'll have 7 days from the receipt of the card to repair the violation. So, let me get this straight: We'll have secret volunteer neighbors out reporting real or imagined violations to which I have to respond to at risk of a citation?

Here's an idea:

Have administrators, parents or (gasp!) the teens themselves make decisions on how they will or won't gyrate to that evil rock and/or roll.

If your neighbor has a fence that needs a few planks replaced, bring over libations and help them fix it instead of calling code enforcement folks...and please, whatever you do, DO NOT, under any circumstances, spy on your neighbors for the government (covenant neighborhoods already gave up that ability, but the rest of us still want it).

Are either of those too difficult?

And people actually wonder why GenX is so cynical?

Allow me to suggest that it's stuff like this that gives me full-blown reason to be.