My mother has been active in the Miss Texas pageant system for about 20 years and let me tell you, Miss USA is not the good program.  Miss America is the good program.  They aren't the same.  Miss USA is owned by the donald is judged entirely on beauty, while the Miss America scholarship pageant is a combination of 40% talent, interview, etc. and not just beauty.  The contestants compete for college scholorships.  The Miss Texas Pageant will be held this Saturday in Ft. Worth and I will be attending for like the 20th year in a row.  It's pretty much the most boring thing in the world, but I felt like enlightening ya'll about the pageant system.

I think the Pageant crusade just reached its zenith...now I can just put it on cruise control and coast on into football season...I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that I'm successfully lobbying for beauty pageants to be recognized as a sport on the BON or the fact that I actually know nothing about them.

Regardless, it's an excuse to look at hot chicks, and there ain't nothin' wrong with dat.

And um, no offense to Crystle, she does her Glamour Shots proud, but is there any precedent for impeaching the reigning Miss Texas, Brooke Daniels is, how did that kid on the Tilt-A-Whirl in Joe Dirt say it, "so hot you'd shit yo-self."

She is ridiculous...excuse me, I'm going to need five minutes, and some privacy.

I am actually commenting on a post about beauty Pageants, but my girlfriend made me watch some of this and it was TERRIBLE. Granted, some of the girls were pretty damn hot, but you can easily see better products in the average issue of Maxim or on E!. And if your response is "but these are good, all American girls", than that's a load of crap. Did you see Miss Hottie Houston's question and answer session? You'd get better responses from a wall.

The best part of it was the constant hard-selling of Laredo, TX as a tourist destination and cultural epicenter. You know they're desperate when they list Red Lobster as one of the wonderful seafood experiences you can have while dining at their great restaurants. Others included Johny Carino's, Olive Garden, and some Taco Stand. Honestly, this is meant with no offense to those of you from Laredo...unless you think that Red Lobster is the highlight of your city.

Check out the web sites for Miss USA and Miss Universe sometime.  He's got these wholesome lasses all tarted up like a College Station piglet on a Saturday night.  If that's your thing, so be it, but I'll stick with Miss America, too.  Kudos to Ms. Stewart, though, and may I take the opportunity again to mention how we need more diversity in the ranks of UT Cheerleading?!