TheBanyanTree: Sluts, anyone?

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Loved it!  Brought me a morning smile...and I don't smile much in the morning!  :)

---- Monique Colver <monique.colver at gmail.com> wrote: 
Oh, it's a story you want!

There I was, hanging out doing my own thing, which I often do, when I
happened upon a news article about a radio guy insulting a law student.
"Hmm," I thought, "I see he's up to his old tricks." Well, he was always up
to them, it's not as if he took a leave of absence or anything. And so I
glanced at it, and then I read some more, and it occurred to me that
there's some sort of dissension going on because people are speaking
different languages. Was one of them gibberish? I don't know.

I am quite fluent in gibberish, having majored in it during college, and
it's a good thing I did too, for I find it ever more useful than the
language I really wanted, which was Mandarin.

It's only my very own opinion that I have, for I learned at a young age
that I couldn't have anyone else's, no matter how I begged people to give
me theirs. But since I am quite generous, I do not hesitate to share mine,
no matter how many people ask me to please, for the love of all that's
holy, stop.

Sandra Fluke wants her insurance to cover contraception. She pays for her
own insurance as a student. Contraception which comes in the form of the
pill is not just for contraception: it is used to treat a variety of
medical issues that pertain strictly to women. So sorry, we do have
different issues. And since it's by prescription, a doctor visit must be
included in the cost. Depending on where you are, that can be quite a bit.
Studies show that funding contraception results in less health care costs
later on.

I, and this is perhaps because I'm a feeble minded woman, fail to see how
this means anyone's paying her, or anyone else, for sex. Viagra and the
like are also commonly covered by insurance, but I hear no public uproar
for having men's sex lives funded, despite Viagra and the like having no
other medical use, unlike the pill.

The rhetoric I saw flying around like machine gun blasts kept up a theme
of, "How many condoms does she go through?" and "Shouldn't she be studying
instead of having sex all the time?"

To which I could only shake my head in sadness.

Mr Limbaugh is not my political enemy. He's not even on my list of enemies.
He's a buffoon who makes these remarks because it makes him money. Until he
overestimates his appeal and his advertisers start pulling back. He would
say anything to keep up his cash flow, because that's what matters to him.

I am revising my list of enemies today, however, and I shall search for a
political one or two to pop on there, just for diversity.

The ending of the story: (And by the way, I am experimenting with a new
sort of writing, called New Storytelling, which doesn't always fit into the
standard definition of a story)

And when the long-winded and annoying caricature of a talk show host was
banned from the land there was much rejoicing, and the king (for it would
be a king, and not a queen) proclaimed it a holiday, and the people,
downtrodden as they were, danced in the street all night long. In the
morning, amidst the leftover confetti and beer bottles, they emerged into a
bright shiny day, and all was well.

M



On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:56 AM, spoonoid <spoonoid at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> It seems to me that the Banyan Tree is for stories and not for tirades
> against
> political enemies. Or perhaps someone would like to sing the praises of
> the Ed
> Schultz Radio Show. Or maybe somebody could write a story about how Sandra
> Fluke
> is justified in wanting the government to pay for her contraception.
> Fairness
> and balance can't be all bad.
>
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>
> ________________________________
> From: Margaret R. Kramer <margaretkramer at comcast.net>
> To: The Banyan Tree <thebanyantree at remsset.com>
> Sent: Sun, March 4, 2012 1:20:07 PM
> Subject: TheBanyanTree: Sluts, anyone?  **Sexually Explicit Language**
>
> What is wrong with Rush Limbaugh?  I know he says
>