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Governor's son selling "Don't Drop the Soap" prison boardgame
2008-01-28
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The son of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is peddling a board game titled “Don’t Drop the Soap,” a prison-themed game he created as part of a class project at the Rhode Island School of Design. John Sebelius, 23, has the backing of his mother and father, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Sebelius. The governor’s spokeswoman, Nicole Corcoran, said both parents “are very proud of their son John’s creativity and talent.” . . .
I just love his Karelia Suite.
“Fight your way through 6 different exciting locations in hopes of being granted parole,” the site says. “Escape prison riots in The Yard, slip glass into a mob boss’ lasagna in the Cafeteria, steal painkillers from the nurse’s desk in the Infirmary.”

The game includes five tokens representing a bag of cocaine, a handgun and three characters: wheelchair-using ‘Wheelz,” muscle-flexing “Anferny” and business suit-clad “Sal ‘the Butcher.’” . . .

h/t Jules Crittenden, who notes that an earlier version of the AP story contained a few more salacious details about the game:

An earlier version that moved on the wires had a quote about “No one enters through the front door,” something like that, not sure what that’s supposed to mean, and mentioned something about getting cornered by the Aryan Nations in the showers, but a subsequent version moved minus that, with the unusual notation that it had been edited for length. That was odd. Never seen that before. Wish they’d do a little more of that, as wire scribblers write like there’s no line count sometimes, and cutting for space can be a damned nuisance.

DoesnÂ’t exactly sound like a game designed with unity, hope or change in mind, though.
Posted by:Mike

#8  Seeing how it's Oldies day here at the Burg, this article needs a link to the King himself doing the Jailhouse Rock
Posted by: lotp   2008-01-28 15:41  

#7  RISDy...the freak paradise of Providence. A four year vacation on mom and dad's dime. Beavis and Butthead, live and in the flesh...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-01-28 12:26  

#6  From Hutchinson News January 24, 2008
cost for article, summarized:
Congressman Jery Moran (R-KS) arrived for this 24th visit to Kiowa County since the May 4 tornado. he was in great form and the consensus at my table was that Jerry delivered, pherhaps, the best speech of his congressional career.

Seated at the next table were Dennis and Jean McKinney, two special people, who like so many others, lost their home and earthly possessions in their residence located a short distan ce to the south of the Greensburg city limits.

Dennis, the minority leader of the Kansas House of Representatives (D-116th), has been the point man to state and federal agencies and, as always, has done a superb job.


These are the 2 people who, despite the efforts of the state and federal agencies, have been getting things done. Only brought up because of sebelius 'I have a green' speech later tonight - look for the lack of support b/c NG troops are gone inline, whose absence went unnoticed by the governor during the ice storms which affected 10s of thousands rather than just under a thousand people with the 'Going Greensburg' face put on the story.

That, and maybe junior is trying to build interest/inventory for the museum prison.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-01-28 12:21  

#5  Wikipedia, is there anything that website can't do, I ask you!?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-01-28 12:09  

#4  Actually, I cheated, I used wikipedia to find out the party.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-01-28 11:53  

#3  No guess. You can see the proud mother talk greensburg and unity politics (Obama is in El Dorado, KS to honor his grandfather) tonight at the State of the Union Address Dissenting Opinion Hour, as she prepares to leave the governorship and enter into the US Senate.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-01-28 10:37  

#2  Stop Prisoner Rape

An eye-opening webiste, independently of its leaning, if only because, beyond the jokes, the reality is that prison rape is perpetred on the weaker and less dangerous inmantes by the actual criminals, and that is has a definite racial/racist element (with the young white man from non violent criminal background as the very, very bottom of the food chain).
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-01-28 10:09  

#1  AND IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER EXCITING GAME OF GUESS THE PARTY!
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-01-28 10:01  

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