Fiction: A Few Words From Leonard Ramirez, First Co-President of the United States
The latest from my ongoing interminable series “Rejected by McSweeney’s.” Good afternoon, Mr. President; Madam Secretary; members of the press corps; ladies and gentlemen. When I first received a call from the election commission informing me that, due to an obscure and little-understood bylaw in our nation’s founding documents, the Supreme Court was, for the first time ever, Constitutionally obligated to name a Co-President of the United States, I was, to say the least, surprised. When the gentleman on the phone went on to say that, due to the ratio between the popular vote total in the Northern states and … Read more