April 3, 2008

Richard: Here at Lurid Digs, we’re not what you’d call “political”. I mean, we think PETA is fine, as long as it’s warm and served with a hearty side of baba ghanoush.

So this may seem a departure from our typically detached, snarky stance, but we simply cannot sit idly by while average Joes and G. I. Janes are forced to live in squalor due to the economic policies of the current administration.

We know it’s hard, people, but please, look at this image. This middle-class hero — we’ll call him Joe for consistency’s sake — labored day and night at Bear Stearns to fund his retirement in Boca Raton. But as you can see, thanks to the mortgage/housing collapse, the oil crisis, and a soaring US trade deficit — not to mention certain financial difficulties being endured by his former employer — Joe has been forced into a retirement home on the outskirts of Terre Haute.

Far worse, the floors above and below him are clearly occupied by black holes, which have not only been shown to cause cancer and artificial tanning in lab rats, but they also keep Joe’s sports accoutrements in a constant state of flux, being drawn toward event horizons looming just a few feet in either direction. Even our subject is beginning to feel the pull. Yet he valiantly struggles on, hoping for a better tomorrow.

If we don’t fix this problem now, the retirement of Dennis Hopper and his Boomer cohorts may be one of the biggest crises our nation has ever faced. Are we ready for that? Speak out, people! No to short-sighted tax incentives! No to black holes!
 
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