Diogenes Endorses Coons for US Senate, Rips Christine O'Donnell

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From the Jack Rabbit News Service
Dated Friday, September 17

Diogenes Endorses Coons, Rips O’Donnell
By Jack Rabbit

Diogenes of Sinope, the famous Greek philosopher, has thrown his endorsement to Democratic candidate Chris Coons in the US Senate race in Delaware, denouncing Christine O’Donnell, Coons’ Republican opponent, as a "customary prude" and an "enemy of nature."



Diogenes was interviewed at his home behind the Agora
Painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) from Wikipedia (Public Domain)

The colorful philosopher announced his endorsement of Coons during an interview in his home, a wooden tub located behind the Agora, the marketplace in Athens, where he settled after being exiled from his native Sinope on the coast of the Black Sea in Asia Minor, now known as Sinop, Turkey.

"You Americans – well, not all of you, I am an admirer of your Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg – are really hung up on your unfortunate Puritan past," said Diogenes. "You people are really too hung up on looking for evil in natural behavior, where it could not possibly exist," he continued. "It’s no wonder your prisons are so full when you have laws against smoking marijuana and certain kinds of sexual behavior. If this nutty lady is elected to your Senate, will she propose legislation that would sick the FBI on all of you to inspect your bed sheets every morning?"

Diogenes was clearly making reference to Ms. O’Donnell's remarks equating masturbation with adultery.

Diogenes, who espouses a philosophy he calls cynicism, from a Greek word meaning "dog-like," is most famous walking the streets while carrying a lantern claiming to be looking for an honest man and not able to find one. On another occasion, he was arrested for masturbating in public. He told authorities, "If only it were as easy to assuage hunger by rubbing your stomach."

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