I just scanned an Associated Press article on Yahoo News with photos of the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. Maybe bad pix or maybe poor contestants, or both - I wasn't impressed.
They were pleasant looking young women, but hardly the Miss America quality stunners of years past. I have to wonder whether this whole beauty pageant concept has passed its sell-by date.
I am reminded of hundreds of little rural Texas towns that died 60 years ago; whatever purpose they once served no longer exists. Since nobody tells them to stop, they continue along in a sort of sleepwalking time warp.
Maybe beauty pageants are like that, just stumbling along. A sad thought, if true.
