… lurks in the unlikeliest places.
Found this toward the end of the comment thread for a New York Times debate on whether direct to consumer television commercials for prescription drugs is a good idea.
(Answer, according to virtually all debaters and commenters:
Are you effing kidding?):
An erection pill called Ta Da? Ta Da! I’m now a vacuous, bourgeois, self-entitled cretin chasing his menopausal, morbidly obese spouse around our stucco McMansion with a raging erection – Ta Da! the American Dream!
There’s more where that came from. The whole thing’s worth reading.
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Results of the debate here.
August 10th, 2009 at 6:29AM
Hmm…
Good one – Ta Da!
Also, picture this: The viagra-induced priapismic singing "Go down Moses…"
August 11th, 2009 at 8:07AM
Do not worry. Soon, these drugs will only be available to liberal urban elites who will use them responsibly and for the improvement of society. Information about new drugs will be classified; ordinary people who ask about their dry eyes, restless legs, or psoriasis will be subject to denunciation at [email protected].