Baring the Important Bits

Political correctitude and femi-McCarthyism have claimed yet another chunk of the ever-decreasing ruggedness that is high culture in the United States. The Miss America pageant is forsaking all concern with mere appearances, as its organisers intend from now on to ensure that contestants are judged purely by the depths of their souls, rather than their appearance in a swimsuit. It remains as yet unclear what awful fathoms of depth are expected in the kind of people who enter the Miss America pageant, let alone by whom and with what equipment the spiritual colonoscopy is to be performed.