What? You don’t know what DWSP stands for? Where have you been? Obviously it’s an acronym for ‘Down With Sagging Pants,’ a trend that is rapidly growing as something for us to hate and fight against. Recently the New York Times published an article in the August 30 Fashion & Style section about how people find it offensive to see guys wearing pants down past their but. Ok, fair enough for this section. But what gets me is on August 28, the Times ran an article in the Metro section about Stratford, CT’s disgust at the fashion and their fight to have it banned. A third of the page was taken up with this. A third of the page.

Now, lets go to another subject that also really gets me. On September 1 there was an article about Mike B. Nifong, the former district attorney in North Carolina who pushed to get the Duke lacrosse players convicted of rape. He was found guilty of lying and was disbarred and facing charges. This article was a smidgen of the DWSP article and it was pushed back into the corners of the last pages of the National section. Great! So nice to see where our priorities lie. Maybe if Nifong was wearing sagging pants, then his story would probably be on the front page.

Until things change, I find the need to hanker down, maybe buy some belts for those unfortunates who need it so. It’s good that we fight for our rights about these sorts of things, I mean, sure there’s a war going on, but this is so much closer to home. God bless America and the media.