You’ve Come a Long Way Baby

Are you tired of having your life dictated by a bunch of simpletons who think the Earth is 6,000 years old? Don’t you wish the Rapture would hurry up and get here so we can finally be rid of those self-righteous Biblehumps?

Don’t despair. Progress is slowly (or make that slo-o-o-o-o-wly) being made.

On this date in 1923, the U.S. Attorney General ruled that it’s now legal for women to wear pants in public. Oh. My. God!!!

Just try to imagine the hysteria — the anguish! — that must have reverberated among the Faithful. Little did these poor people know that thirty years in the future, the Devil’s Music would rear its head and enslave this great nation once and for all.

Hat Tip to the local bookstore, whose daily chalkboard message provided the above information.

cross-posted at Bring It On!