And Your Dirty Pompoms Too:

While Tom DeLay turns on a spit, back in his home state of Texas, the legislature has introduced a bill banning “overtly sexually suggestive cheerleading.” Texas, of course, is the home of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, the National Cheerleaders Association and is such a cash cow for the state economy that it makes proposing this bill a little like Idaho trying to legislate the size of potatoes. But welcome to the right’s view of female sexuality. They want it on display and seemingly available, just not to, ya know, everybody.

No wonder Molly Ivins had this to say about her sense of humor: “I’m not a very funny person. It’s all in the material.”

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