Truth, Lies and In Between

First the humor:

BELL-RINGER FIASCO DOESN’T DETER NOTED REVEREND FROM ENDORSING LIBERAL-BASHING BOARD GAME

On Monday morning, a man with both arms in a cast answered Reverend Damion Siggs Siksics’ want ad for a new bell-ringer. Because of the obvious handicap, Pastor Siksics dismissed the man’s pleas for the job until he insisted he could ring the bell loud enough by running into it with his forehead and nose. The curious, compassionate, and often rantingly optimistic minister gave the pathetic initiate all he really wanted—a chance. The rugged and resolute imbecile ran straight into the bell with his forehead and nose, and it rang so loud that hundreds of his parishioners heard it, and, thinking it meant some kind of special service, began making their ways to the church.

Unfortunately, the proud but accident-prone idiot hit the bell so hard that he bounced right out the bell tower window, screaming like a saint sent to hell by mistake, all 220 feet down to the cement courtyard below.

According to eyewitnesses, he lay writhing and groaning and bleeding as the slouching parishioners sauntered over. When Pastor Siksics got down from the tower, one of his followers asked him, “What’s going on here? Who is this man? What’s his name?”

The most deferential parson scratched his shock of red hair, recently dyed for the religious holidays, and said, “I honestly don’t know who he is. I forgot to get his name, but his face rings a bell.”

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I stumbled on that after I read this:

Banning a game
By Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr.

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In 1980, as young businessmen frustrated with government rules and taxes, my partner and I produced and marketed a board game called “Public Assistance: Why Bother Working for a Living?” We intended the game as a parody of government liberalism, with a special focus on the able-bodied loaferism, welfare fraud, and social chaos its domestic policies promote. Threatened by the game’s popularity, embarrassed liberals successfully implemented a nationwide government plan to “remove the game from the marketplace.”

We’ll first look at the game itself, then at the plan to ban it, and finally, at how the game and the banning of it relate directly to the goals of Barack Obama.

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