K Street, here's a new propsal to lobby for

Take heed D.C. officials, it's hot outside! Mark Kleiman rather sarcastically comments on the EU's proposal to ban neckties in summer:

... The excuse is energy conservation; men with open collars (and no jackets) presumably can tolerate warmer offices, saving on air-conditioning.

Whatever.

Getting rid of that ugly, expensive, and uncomfortable badge of middle-classness will certainly improve the quality of EU decision-making by improving the oxygen supply to the brains of the Eurocrats, and perhaps making them less pompous. ...

Who would have expected such a great blow for hippie/Boomer/Angeleno culture to come from Brussels, of all places?

– AP Photo/Thierry Charlier