When it comes to cheerleaders and drill teams shimmying on the football field, how low can they go?

The House didn't answer that question Tuesday, but it did decide who should: The state's education officials, who aren't entirely sure about their proposed new role as the moral stewards of Texas high schools.

Oh, lovely.  Just lovely.  The same buffoons who can't even figure out that evolution should be taught as a theory  rather than as a fact is now charged with gauging the old-style "I know it when I see it" standard of cheerleader pornography sluttiness vulgarity "appeal".

Edwards argued that bawdy performances are a distraction for students, resulting in pregnancies, dropouts and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

Oh, I can just see it now:  A high school teenybopper slut does the bump and grind in a midriff-baring sweater and a mini, and the dropout rate immediately goes up 40 percent.  Hell, you'd think that attendance - well, at least on the part of the boys - would approach 100% on that issue.  Get a sexy-enough girl doing it and guys from other  schools would flock to see her, thus raising attendance to 115 or 120 percent!!!

And since the state distributes $$$$ to the districts based on attendance...Hmmm, I wonder if they could recruit from Baby Doll's?

Ribald performances are not defined in the bill. "Any adult that's been involved with sex in their lives, they know it when they see it," he said.

That particular test barely passed Constitutional muster when the Supreme Court was reviewing bona fide  porn - does this dumbass really think it'll do so this  time around?

Seriously, Denizens.  I'm all for wholesomeness when it comes to cheerleaders - I mean, the Crown Prince™ will be dealing with this very issue himself in 15 years or so.  But do we really need a freakin' law to handle this???

I mean, does the Texas Legislature Not Have Enough To Do™ at the moment?  They only meet in session once every two years, and for only 140 days at this, and this  is the best state business they could dredge up?

More to the point, have the parents and the school boards so abdicated their God-given responsibilities that the state has to stick its ugly-assed nose into this?

Sheesh...