Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Cino de Mayo: Now in New Seis

Hecho en Mexico. Well, in Arizona they just passed a law or something that essentially says you can be stopped and asked for your papers if you are more tan than Sissy Spacek or that monk in that movie with the guy from Bachelor Party. We understand that the intricate legal details of the law were too esoteric to get it popularly passed but once pared to its essence: If you're brown you're goin' down, it went right through the legislature. Yes, it's true we're both immigrants. But not from parts unknown - from Mexico. Though we realize the two are almost always synonymous. While we pride ourselves on being transplanted yankee-doodles we thought we would take the occasion of the holiday yesterday to reflect upon our home nations, our adopted, beloved America, and the future we - guests in a nation of guests - must forge. For openers, let us clarify that while I (Petey) was born in Mexico, I (Sadie) came to your shores by way of a cultural exchange program from Puerto Rico though my ancestry is of course Mexican. This explains my love for Big Pun, Rosie Perez, and NPR (As loved by Rosie Perez). Where as I (Petey) recall romantic nights scavenging comida prehispanico via the dimly lit take-out stalls of Tijuana each painted with a scrawled "Taco Bell" logo to fool the gringos who came down with their high school buddies to score some Spanish Fly. Many an evening was spent in revelry there my friends. Which is not to say that a goddamn 2x2 cage in Puppies for Less isn't nice too. Anyway, we want to set the record straight that despite our flag waving for the good ol' U.S. of A. and our near perfect scores on the citizenship exam (Who knew that reciting lines from Nice Dreams would not qualify as American??) we are uniformly against this law. Without permeable borders who would white humans work in food service with during grad school so they could later claim bilingual on their Starbucks application? Who would keep Larry Merchant in a job? and who the fuck would live in Arizona? Proponents of this law claim that nothing in it will lead to racial profiling which of course is like saying that smearing yourself in bacon grease will not lead to us biting your junk. Please stop pulling our leashes, we are curious what jobs you feel they are stealing and what public systems you feel they are draining other than your swimming pools. Besides, if you were so concerned might you not learn from other ass-backward legislation like prohibition or the war on drugs or No Labradoodle Left Behind and see that this will not only alienate those non-alien residents who happen to skin more toward George Hamilton than George Washington (An illegal) but drive those alien aliens further underground and further away from measurable contribution until finally they just pop out of an astronaut's stomach like that other alien in Alien? What a field day for the heat. But its a dry heat.
Hasta manana bitches
-P & S


Sunday, May 2, 2010

Health Care Reform

Indignity. Now, we here at P&SGO! know that in these trying economic times every little bit helps. So we know what you are thinking. "How dare this little rapscallion ask the pharmacy to waste printer ink on the "Petey Dog" on that sub-clinical dose of Phenobarbital label! It's scandalous, that little pineapple!! What about my pension for working at the pine cone factory?!!! My daughter who is very intelligent says she has to pay a lot of money for medicine now because of teachers and the President and the Pope!!!! And why must it say Petey "Dog"? Is it because of that rap?!!!!!" That's exactly what you're thinking right? I have been levied that critique before. And so again, in this economy, we want to appear as sensitive as possible and give our enlightened readership every assurance that these wasteful extravagances in our daily med rituals are purely unintended and furthermore that we now contribute no less than 1% of our admittedly hulking royalty checks to not only our own health care costs (!) but to noteworthy healthy stuff oriented charities like BAND-AID and USA FOR IONIC BREEZES FOR AFRICA (It's dusty there I guess). Lastly, we want everyone to know that the "Dog" in "Petey Dog" is not intended to be there in the sense that "DAWG", "DAG", or even "MANG" might be used and in no way is there as a colloquial attachment to my name the way one might call their friend Jimbo "J-DOG". It is there solely to prevent this controlled substance from being given to say a non-epileptic human baby which in this economy I think we can all agree would be the most wasteful thing of all.
Ciao
-P