August 16, 2012

  • an impassioned plea for flatulent justice

    People tell me I don't blog often enough.  But today there is a war on farts.  School children are being locked up for farting, and I can no longer remain silent.  This is a compelling story.  It must be told.

    Locked up?

    When children are suspended from school in Meridian Mississippi, the Youth Court places them on probation, and the probation terms require them to be incarcerated in the juvenile detention center.  (LINK )

    According to the U.S. Justice Department, the Meridian police routinely arrests public school students whenever the school wants to press charges.

    If the students are on probation, any further violations count as probation violations, which require them "to serve any suspensions from school in the juvenile detention center," the Justice Department said.

    Flatulence?

    So if a student is on probation and then gets suspended for a minor infraction like "dress code violations, flatulence, profanity, and disrespect," the student can serve that suspension in the detention center.  I am not making this up  ( LINK )

    Officials in Meridian have operated "a school-to-prison pipeline" that violates the constitutional rights of juveniles by incarcerating them for alleged school disciplinary infractions, the U.S. Department of Justice said.  And "the students most severely affected by these practices are black children and children with disabilities."

    Along with the farty children.


     

    Farting is rude, isn't it?

    Farts are downright funny.  And you know it.

    "Let's break down a fart for a second," said comedian Louis C.K. to Jon Stewart.  "It comes out of your ass.  It smells like poop.  And it makes a little trumpet noise when it comes out."

    "You don't have to be smart to laugh at farts," C.K. concluded, "but you have to be stupid not to."

     

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