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Back to home pageThis is the text only version of The Gag insert to Ragged Edge magazine.
NEW! from Voice of the Retarded Parent Your very own Polly Spare Puppet
At last! She speaks the truth!
Image of the head of Polly Spare, superimposed on a hand puppet. Around the head are quotes of what the Polly Spare puppet would say:
"You wouldn't keep a hot tub that leaked, would you? Well? Would you?"
"Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get urine out of oriental rugs?"
"Frankly, my dear, they drooled. And in public!
They were just... damp! All day long!"
"I had to find placements for our poor defective darlings... so as to make room for the real children we later adopted."
"I like to think of institutions for the retarded as our nation's first and finest dispoz-alls."
"No, really, this is my own hair."
In grim reality, Polly Spare is President of Voice of the Retarded (VOR), a group of parents who once dumped their kids in institutions and today grease political wheels to keep them there. Allied with unions representing workers at DD centers, VOR is well-heeled and very influential. Its amicus brief in the Olmstead case said, "The safety and constant monitoring provided by an institutions presents one care option envisioned by the ADA."
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