Public breasts brouhaha in Austin
Daze's hometown of Austin, Texas, has no law against bare female breasts in public, and topless sunbathing is fairly common at the city's main swimming/sunning venue, Barton Springs. There's also a great nude beach called Hippie Hollow a few miles from town. All very civilized, if you ask me. Austin American-Statesman columnist Jane Greig recently complained about the topless sunbathing (what about the children?) and encouraged fellow prudes to lobby the City Council. In a later column, she read through her mailbag and belittled anyone (except herself) who actually cares about this issue. And she weaseled out of her earlier advocacy ("Want to change the law? Contact the City Council and let your feelings be known.") by claiming that she was merely "providing information, not a call to lobby the council." The local alt-weekly reported on plans for a playful public protest of Greig's anti-breast initiative, and later ran a discreet photo of the sparsely attended event.
