Slow news day, huh?

People tend to place themselves at the center of the universe, even all too many journalists. This is yet one more reminder of that phenomenon. It would be nice if more people were Copernican and less Ptolemaic, even red staters.

I think that what they meant to say was that to the politically and socially enlightened it is obvious that girls should have equal opportunities in sports; those of us who really don't care can be assumed to support the proposition if we were only to consider it, and those who truly object to the idea are simply Neanderthals whose opinions do not matter.  

This kind of lax editing that is not terribly uncommon in the Times when the subject of the article is not political, as in this case.  And maybe that is okay, since the proposition really has no consequences, it serves to draw you in to the article by making you consider your own values, and there would have been no point to actually explicating the diversity of opinion on the question.

Do people really spend $60 on jeans? That seems like a lot to me.

I own two pairs of blue and a pair of black. I wear one pair of blue for a week, then the other pair. The black pair wait expectently, a good-glove no-bat infielder stuck in Triple A and secretly hopeful one of the blue pairs pulls a hammy and they get called up for a few days.

I don't count the jean museum piled in a corner of my closet, gathered in days of yore. Occasionally I'm behind a guy in line at the movies or what not and notice his Levis are 32/34, what I wore for years before my omentum became metastatic. I'd envy him except I remember the guy who fit into my 32/34's was pretty much an ignorant asshole, moreso at least than the current version.

Unlike the young lady at work--I don't know her name, but her cube's in this building somewhere--who wears the el cheapo Tar-zhay jeans and who is unfailingly sweet and good-natured and seriously pretty, and who I say hi to in the hall and then wait for her to pass so I can watch her walk away, because how she exploits the dorsal elevation of her $20 jeans is something no $300 jeans can do to anyone else, at least in my recent experience.

Okay, the $300 jeans line is silly, but the article is still worth a read.