Laugh Congress out of Office

(Ark, Arkadelphia  —  Gov’ment Is Your Friend  —  August 4, 2016)

Sometimes the voting box just don’t get it done. That’s why three local activists have organized a state-condoned Laugh-A-Thon scheduled from now through October. Supporters are asked to assemble in public places all over the country and giggle, chortle, snicker and teehee the current silver-spoon, dead weight out of office.

And since laughter is known to be contagious other interested parties are welcome to take part in the colossal, continental demonstrations.

“The idea is to bring attention to the deplorable state of government at all levels here in the United States,” said Melvin Toole, head cackler of the Laugh-A-Thon. “The underlying system is rotten, based on false hopes and accrued wealth.”

A simulated laugh event was held in Bopal, India last month with great response.

Plans to rattle the walls in Washington acknowledge the vast problems exist and recognize that laughter, while the best medicine, may not have an immediate impact due to long practiced corruption and a naive, well entrenched peasantry that will never comprehend what is going down around them.

“It may take a more than a few chuckles to pry these parasites from the power base but it beats sitting around watching television,” said a second guffaw source. “We plan to localize the effort later in the summer with laughter sessions in small towns and rural counties across this great land.”

Grass roots as it may be, only time will tell if the nation’s hard-pressed puritans, not likely to crack so much as a small a smile, will get behind this hilarious effort.

– Tommy Middlefinger

“The nation is ruined yet the mountains and the rivers remain.”
– Tu Fu, Dang Dynasty, 900 AD