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The Times has an article about women wearing miniskirts titled, New York Region > The M Line and the Hemline: Miniskirt Protocols” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/nyregion/03miniskirts.html?ex=1251864000&en=18640b8fe220bca8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>The M Line and the Hemline: Miniskirt Protocols. Because mini’s are all the rage (especially the short frilly ones) it is almost impossible to go through a day without a woman showing the goods when on the subway. The subway is a veritable obsticle course of not showing yourself off. It is almost unavoidable – think of the physics involed! Short amounts of fabric, bending at the waist and knees, not to mention going up stairs, all add to the degree of difficulty and the danger of wearing a mini. On an unrelated note, the article has a picture of a model named Heather Marks, but her face has been cropped out.

Heather Marks, 16, is a professional model. She did not want her face in the newspaper, but she did display her method for keeping subway decorum.

I found this odd, because there wasn’t anything that riske about what she said, or what she was wearing. It was standard prosti-tot fashion (young girls dressing up like prostitutes) that many of the girls/women here wear. What is funny though, is that it took all of 1 second to google Heather Marks to find informtion about a Canadian model who also works in New York. The power of google.
My opinion? Women who put on a short miniskirt, take on the knowledge that sooner or later, you will flash someone. Again, it’s unavoidable – you are the one who put on that tiny skirt, you have to live with the consequences. You might as well just pick a good pair of underwear, and hope for the best. Sorry ladies, fashion is a bitch.

This post appeared in a previous blog and is here for posterity’s sake.

Mayor Bloomberg, displaying an acute level of hyperbole:

It is true that a handful of people have tried to destroy our city by going up and yelling at visitors here because they don’t agree with their views,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “Think about what that says. This is America, New York, cradle of liberty, the city for free speech if there ever was one and some people think that we shouldn’t allow people to express themselves. That’s exactly what the terrorists did, if you think about it, on 9/11. Now this is not the same kind of terrorism but there’s no question that these anarchists are afraid to let people speak out.

Nice painting with a wide brush, Mr Mayor. why don’t you talk about how your police department held detanees longer than the permissible 24 hours? Or that it took a state judge order their release three times before you did? It isn’t like you weren’t forewarned about the amount of protesters. Commissioner Kelly was talking about 1,000 arrests a day, so you knew there would need to be a whole police, logistical and judicial apparatus set up do deal with them. When it takes 36-48 hours to write a desk appearance ticket (a ticket) you can’t tell me that there wasn’t deliberate slowdowns to keep people off the streets until after the President spoke.