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Governor Vaginal Probe or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Stupid Laws

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Or how about any governor who'd allow industry to spew more pollution into our already foul air would have to spend a week camping next to the smelliest refinery in Pasadena (or, as we called it growing up, Stinkadena) with his own children by his side. And when his kids are hacking away with asthma, maybe, just maybe, he'll finally get it and understand why pollution controls are important.

Or, yes, any governor who would cut taxes on businesses and the rich just to get more campaign contributions would have to spend the holidays with those people whose services would be cut or jobs would be eliminated because of his corruption.

And finally, any governor who would push for women to be raped by a transvaginal ultrasound wand because they wanted to have an abortion would have to himself go to Planned Parenthood, take off his clothes, bend over, and be stuck in another orifice with a ten-inch wand. That'll teach him!

So like Slim Pickens, riding a bucking bomb, I say, "Yahoo! to asinine laws, just ours, not theirs."

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