The mayor of an Arkansas town resigned this week, and offered as an explanation the best withdrawal-from-politics explanation of all time. Does he want to "spend time with his family"? No. The article begins:
The mayor of an Arkansas town resigned on Wednesday, claiming he was abducted and brainwashed by Satan worshippers nearly three decades ago.
See, it all started in Indiana, and a different life:
Williams told authorities he was born Don LaRose and that in the mid-1970s, he was a preacher in Indiana. He said he was abducted and brainwashed into forgetting all about his life as Don LaRose.
How did it finally emerge into the daylight of public life?
It was a double-life he had never acknowledged, Williams said, because he didn't even realize it existed until he had recently taken a truth-serum injection...
The information went public, Williams said, because he runs a Web site about Don LaRose and his disappearance. LaRose's former family found the Web site and started inquiring about its author. They found the site registered to a Ken Williams and went from there.
There is a video, which begins with a coincidentally appropriate ad, asking you, dear viewer, if you would like to double your money with a new job. According to the video, the mayor's resignation letter was signed with two names.
(via the ever-generous Warren Ellis)
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