Don't forget, it's Seersucker Thursday. Hide the kids! And if Rick Santorum or Billy "White Shoes" Frist should show up, just throw the bum out!

Note to Senate bouncer: You see either of these
lovebirds, toss him out on his ass. They're history.

Yes, friends, the dreaded day is here! Our friend Melody, who's been providing the background material for DWT's extensive Seersucker Thursday 2007 coverage, also dug up these photos for us--from Seersucker Thursday 2004! Setting aside the small matter of this being Your U.S. Senate at Work, if this doesn't make you feel better about wherever you are and whatever you're doing, nothing will.


POSTSCRIPT: A SEERSUCKER FAN'S DILEMMA

The DWT Ethics-in-Style Department has received the following heart-rending e-mail:

Dear DownWithTyranny Ethics-in-Style Dept.:

I've been following DWT's Seersucker Thursday 2007 coverage with fascination and horror, and seen the stomach-churning pictures. My problem is that I own a seersucker suit, which I used to like to wear sometimes in the summer. Oh, it creases like crazy, and stains something awful, and is hell to try to keep clean, but on those really hot days it can feel a lot cooler than a normal "summer" suit. (Would you believe, in my lousy job I've got to wear a suit! It really is a lousy, low-paying, dead-end job, but these days I figure I'm lucky to have it.) And I have to say, I even kind of like the look of it.

Or I used to. Now that photo of Rick Santorum with the pink tie is causing me nightmares. What do I do? I mean, I have this powerful impulse to burn the damn thing. Help!

Tom in Cincinnati

Well, Tom, this is a tough one. We would never encourage you to destroy property that you paid for with your oh-so-hard-earned money, all the more so since you once liked the suit.

On the other hand, there's no getting around those photos--although perhaps the Seersucker Thursday 2007 coverage will make it seem less like a perversion of ultra-right-wing loons. (Will we see Harry Reid in seersucker? Would that be good news or bad for seersucker fans?)

Maybe other DWT readers will have some helpful thoughts for you, but in the end, Tom, this is strictly a matter between you and your conscience. With one obvious caveat: for the love of God, no white shoes.