A Little Blue Political Humor - or - "Democracy Exposed"
I think you're going to love this, I was cracking up for a solid minute. The Washington State Legislature recently passed a resolution honoring the creators of Penny Arcade, a thrice-weekly comic strip about video games and related subjects they publish on the internet. Their home page can be found at: http://penny-arcade.com/. Penny Arcade's topics are not usually germane to the discussions we have here but after seeing government in action as this bill made it through the legislature they made a HILARIOUS comic about it. Here's part of the newspost that accompanied the comic which is also worth reading:
You might have heard that we were recently honored by the state of Washington. We do not absorb accolades especially well, being surrounded by a nearly impermeable membrane of self-doubt and residual teen vengeance. Even so, the grandeur of the setting elevated things to almost New Hope, medal ceremony levels. The addition of the following line:
WHEREAS, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins did, without the use of their targeting computers, destroy the Death Star by launching proton torpedoes into its exhaust port; and
would perfect it.
After the bill passed the House, it needed to pass the Senate, which is the way of things. We had a chance to see sausage being made in real time, and it is not a process I think I could endure for long. I understand that - particularly in these troubled economic times - people rail against waste in government and demand to know what their elected representatives could possibly be doing in their marble capitols. Let me tell you that what they are doing is incredibly boring. Eventually, we started just making up the speeches. Whatever we're paying those people, it couldn't possibly be enough.
As for the comic itself, I can't figure out how to put images in my posts. Maybe we can't do that yet? Here's the link (it contains gratuitous, hilarious profanity):
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