Monday, October 1, 2007

Aaron Zaggy: the Dark Horse of Archaic Patriarchal High School Sports Mascot Politics?

A male Missouri high school student runs for Homecoming Queen and wins:



Brava to this self-proclaimed "jokester" on pulling off a GREAT prank, the likes of which haven't been seen since Archie got hoodwinked by some mopes into taking Jughead to prom. But I'm still not really buying that this is a powerful lesson to students about their civic duty at the voting booth, unless the argument is that if you don't vote you'll have a chuckleheaded "prankmeister supreme" in the White House, which would kind of explain the past seven years.

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