The Chronicle‘s Plagiarist weighs in today on the side of the cops who have challenged Chief Hurtt’s misguided beard policy:
IF you think I’ll take the side of the four Houston cops who have sued to be allowed to wear beards just because I have one myself, you are wrong.
I’ll take their side because of Richard Nixon, an Irish-American Sikh New Yorker, a Las Vegas Jew, Newark Muslims, the Waco experience and other rational arguments.
Let’s begin at the beginning. When I first grew this beard back in the 1960s, it wasn’t because that’s what rebels did.
It was because I had the same medical condition the four officers have. It’s a skin problem caused by closely-shaved curly hairs growing back into the skin and becoming infected.
It was not only unattractively splotchy, but it hurt.
It was probably not as serious a condition as with the officers. I could shave without problems if I did not drag the razor against the grain for closeness.
The result was a five o’clock shadow well before noon.
Three letters are adequate to describe this: TMI.
Surely the Chron‘s metro columnists could occasionally find more interesting topics in our city than themselves, with elections upcoming and scandals swirling and all the usual shenanigans. Surely.
