Laugh or You’ll Go Mad
Lear goes for a walk in the rain and loses his mind. If his fool had been funnier he might have held it together. In the wake of the disastrous and unnecessary FISA mess that got signed into law this week, I’ve been feeling pretty down. So, I offer this bit of news for those who, like myself, need something to keep them from a short sharp descent into madness.
Remember conservative Tory MP David Davis? He resigned last month in protest of the Labour government’s extension of the period during which a subject can be held without charges to forty-two days. Yep. Everything’s backwards in England. They drive on the left, they have a queen, and in England, the conservatives are the ones standing up for civil liberties against the oppressive liberal government.
Neither the Liberal Democratic party nor the Labour party put forward a candidate to run against Davis, who ran to reclaim his seat against twenty-five fringe candidates, resulting in a record longest ballot ever seen in a by-election. Some of his opponents included Miss Great Britain of the Miss Great Britain Party, Mad Cow Girl representing the Moster Raving Loony Party, conspiracy theorist David Icke, who has claimed that he is the son of the true Godhead and that many world leaders are in fact reptiles or at the very least reptile sympathizers, and Buss Pass Elvis from the Church of the Militant Elvis Party. At one point, there was even a war of words between the pseudo-King, and Miss GB in which Elvis accused her of bribing the electorate.
For anyone interested in the results, a short list follows:
Davis - 17,113
Icke - 110
Mad Cow Girl - 412
Miss GB - 521
Bus Pass Elvis - 44
Sometimes, it is not so good to be The King.
Comment by Joshua on 11 July 2008 at 11:18 am:
Thank you Diogenes, that was fantastic.
I think tet might actually think Hillary is a lizard queen alien
Comment by Brian on 11 July 2008 at 3:03 pm:
Fun fact: Barack Obama is a reptile sympathizer.