Droopy pants seem to be drawing more attention than the Trinity these days, and perhaps that’s a good thing — at least droopy pants are an issue that is easy to understand and take a stance on. Councilman Dwaine Caraway had been angling for a city ordinance banning droopy pants (pants worn below the belt exposing underwear and seemingly making it difficult to walk), but decided instead to seek a non-binding council resolution after he couldn’t find enough council members to vote for an ordinance and all that would be required to enforce it. True, it’s almost laughable how dopey people wearing sagging pants look, but whether it rises to the level of a public threat requiring police enforcement is kind of laughable, too; do we really want police officers chasing that type of "crime" around? Something else interesting at yesterday’s news conference: Councilman Tennell Atkins, who also is worked up about sagging pants, mentioned that when his own son’s belt dropped below the waist a few years ago, Atkins says he "took of my belt, and I whupped his butt. And I did it for a reason: because I love my kids." That’s what the News quoted him as saying, anyway. Something tells me he’ll be hearing as much about that as he will about his opposition to sagging pants.