Tuesday 1-29-08

Good morning.  It looks like the rain has left SoCal.  Hopefully the temps will warm up a bit and we can enjoy the outdoors once again.  Thats what is so great about living here its an outdoor friendly climate.  Heres a story about a game one should not play in an indoor unfriendly climate.

Dateline Topeka, Kansas The son of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is peddling Don't Drop the Soap, a prison-themed board 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.

John Sebelius is selling the game on his Internet site for $34.99, plus packaging, shipping and handling. The contact information on the Web site lists the address of the governor's mansion. Corcoran said the address will change when John Sebelius moves.

The game also goes on sale starting Jan. 31 at a shop called Hobbs in the college town of Lawrence.

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.'

Corcoran said John Sebelius sought legal advice to be sure he followed proper requirements, and he even took out a loan to pay for the production of his work.

This game is intended for mature audiences not children and is simply intended for entertainment, Corcoran said.

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