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Tom G. Palmer

September 23, 2006

Life Imitates Comedy

Lysistrata.jpg No Peace, No Sex

The Colombian sex strike against gang violence has been hailed as a success and called off, although the BBC notes, “There was no immediate indication whether the strike had had any effect on the local murder rate.”

The theme was no doubt drawn by the gang-bangers’ girl friends from Aristophanes’s comedy Lysistrata, available for downloading here from the Gutenberg Project.

Posted by Tom Palmer at September 23, 2006 9:04 AM | TrackBack
Comments

ColOmbian's sex strike

Posted by: aa at September 24, 2006 12:15 AM

Ack! I know the difference between ColUmbia and ColOmbia and made the mistake anyway. (I have fixed it in the post, but this record of my mistake and aa's helpful correction remains.) Thank you, aa.

Posted by: Tom G. Palmer at September 24, 2006 12:19 AM

Title should have been:

No Justice, No Piece


I have to do everything.

Posted by: John T. Kennedy at September 27, 2006 10:57 PM

Groan....*

*Note: A groan is the phenomenologically appropriate response to a "good" pun.

Posted by: Tom G. Palmer at September 27, 2006 11:42 PM