Here's a news story from my old stomping ground of South Florida. Apparently, various police departments are tightening the employee restrictions on tattoos, either barring them outright or requiring that they be covered. It's refreshing to see the thin blue line preserve some standards of decorum like this, albeit on life support. The article quotes a local tattoo artist who defends the modern popularity of tattoos as follows: "It's not just for whores, bikers and sailors anymore." Pretty frank language for a newspaper, and I'm sure someone will be upset that I quoted it. I beg to differ with the artist's conclusion, though, since pretty much everyone these days acts like those particular subsets of the population. It's not that tattoos crept out of the ghetto; it's just that everyone else crept in.
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