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No Cloaca for You, Either!

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1 year ago
by Logarchism.com in

As the proud pos­ses­sor of a cloaca, Pauly Platy­pus is amused and mys­ti­fied, in equal mea­sure, about some aspects of human behavior.

For exam­ple: the women of Bar­ba­coas, Colum­bia. Or the women of ancient Greece depicted in Aristo­phanes’ Lysis­trata.

Both have adopted the same strat­egy: using a sex strike to get what you want.

The women of Greece wanted an end to war. The women of Bar­ba­coas want a road that one can travel faster than five miles per hour. It doesn’t seem too much to ask.

The prob­lem is, the strike is affect­ing the men of Bar­ba­coas, but it’s the Columbian gov­ern­ment that needs to build the road. So the men of Bar­ba­coas did the only nat­ural thing: they went on a hunger strike in response to the sex strike.

Now the peo­ple of Bar­ba­coas are iso­lated, hun­gry, and horny. This is progress?

(If Mrs. Obama, Mrs. Reid, Mrs. Can­tor or Mrs. Boehner is read­ing this, Pauly’s not try­ing to give you any ideas, but can we get a bud­get deal done, please?)

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Voter Suppression: No Soup For You!

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1 year ago
by filistro in

Who can for­get the infa­mous Soup Nazi from Sein­feld? He made the best soup in New York City, and the faith­ful would wait in line for an hour or more to get their daily fix. But often some poor schmuck would finally reach the counter, only to dis­cover he had dis­pleased the Soup Nazi in some obscure way, upon which he would be told, peremp­to­rily and arbi­trar­ily, “No soup for you!” and forced to trudge off and find lunch some­where else.

This, in a way, is exactly what Repub­li­can leg­is­la­tures in more than a dozen states are doing right now. But although their actions are cer­tainly peremp­tory, there is noth­ing arbi­trary about the “No vote for you!” ini­tia­tive. It is called Voter Sup­pres­sion, and it is specif­i­cally and delib­er­ately tar­geted at peo­ple who are least likely to vote Republican.

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