Rejected! This Post Was Toast. Do Not Read if You Are Satire Impaired

A piece I did for a blogging client. It's inspired by the fact that three of the 20th Century's most evil men had Parkinson's Disease. Given some of the side effects of our medication, if seemed within the realm of humorous possibility there could be a connection. While the client thought this was funny, they declined to publish the piece for fear someone might actually believe that "A sudden powerful urge to brutally repress your fellow humans" was a legitimate PD medication side effect. (To their credit, they paid up a kill-fee without complaint.) I am confident confusion in this case will not be a problem for Off & On readers, and because I like the way the drawings of Franco  and Mao came out, here it is.

A Penny For Your Thought Experiment

There is a body of thought that holds that people with Parkinson's (Hitler aside) tend to be, let's not mince words here, GoodyTwo-Shoes. Our parkie on the streets performs an exhaustive investigation and comes up with  an explanation. Being evil is too damn much work.