Priorities

The US just like the UK has a great number of social and economic problems. The US budget deficit is set to pass $427bn in 2005. In 2001, gun violence killed 29,573 Americans. The number of Americans without any form of healthcare has passed 46,000,000. As in the UK, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening at a frightful rate. Religious intolerance is on the rise and as levels of paranoia and fear increase, freedoms and constitutional rights are reducing.

So it’s good to see state legislatures focussing on the real issues in their attempts to make America a better place.

US politicians fed up with catching an eyeful of underwear want to fine those who won't hitch up their trousers.

The Virginia state house has voted to outlaw the trend of wearing trousers so low that underwear hangs over the top.
Delegates said the habit, popular across the US and in other Western countries, was "coarsening" society.

Or maybe not. Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned, but in Virginia they are too busy looking at @rse cracks to see society collapsing.