Well, it looks as if the Grey Lady is keeping abreast of all the latest trends and goings on in that part of America still able to have the time for recreation in this new economy of ours...
Johnna Cottam was showing a group of her girlfriends how to do a move called the Fireman.
Pole Dancing in Book Club Country As music by Shakira played, she strode up to grab the portable pole in the living room of her well-appointed lakefront home here, wrapped her right leg around it, swung wide with her left, and spun. When she reached the bottom, Ms. Cottam, in a pink “Got Pole?” tank top and black workout pants, tossed her hair back, mudflap-girl style.
“Kick it right out of the ballpark, just kick it,” she encouraged her five friends and neighbors. Making way for the women to try the move, Ms. Cottam backed into a rocking chair draped with pink and purple feather boas that partly covered her twin sons’ two teddy bears.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/nyregion/24pole.html?em&ex=1172466000&en=1a6df3ace9a3a332&ei=5087%0ARelease the inner stripper, I guess, is the answer to the sexual angst of the once and future soccer moms...
Although this newest release, stripper moms 1.69, seems to have different set of balls to keep in the air...
I wonder if they will go blue in 2008...
Their vote, not their husbands, well you know...
I wonder what Mitt would say about this latest trend emanating from the bosom of suburbia via a certain New Jersey gentlemans clubs owned by Tony Soprano....