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Illegal Shaving
A Maryland girls swimming team has had its county
championship title retroactively stripped for one of the more bizarre
retroactive punishments to come down in recent years: It was deemed
that improper shaving had occurred
That's right, improper shaving. Not shaving points mind you, but
shaving of body hair. And, as it turns out, if the unnamed player
implicated had only shaved a couple hours earlier, she and her
teammates would still have their county title.
The reason why the NFHS institutes a no shaving on-site policy is to
protect the swimmers themselves from possible blood transmission or, in
general, doing full body shaves in high school locker rooms, which
would maximize the possibility of unsafe practices like sharing
razors. [Full
Absurdity]
My
first instinct was to absolve Maryland of this nincompoopery, but
no. A
hallmark of nanny-statism is the creation and enforcement of laws
conducive to a risk-free, antiseptic world. So, while this
particular "illegal shaving"
law
may not seem to be their responsibly, it is.
We
have by our
votes, created, coddled, and enabled a culture
which has made these
absurdities possible. Blame then, lady swimmers, your Liberal
state's
policies for this loss. And never-ever
vote for a Democrat, so that others
may live free of such fears and encumbrances.
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