"Greetings, and welcome to the Church of Euthanasia. Hopefully almost all of you have received issue number one of our journal by now. I am sure that many questions still remain, and I'll try to address the most popular ones, which are how, and why.
How did we find you? A detailed explanation would not be appropriate here, but suffice it to say that all of you have posted to one or more of the same newsgroups over the last month or so. These newsgroups were carefully chosen for their degree of intersection with the core principles of the church. We knew that many would react negatively to our methods, but felt this was outweighed by the need to make a widespread, immediate impact.
Why did we do this? As many of you are no doubt aware, the population summit concluded this week in Cairo. If you have been following it in the papers, you will know that almost nothing of any substance was accomplished. Most of the conference was devoted to an acrimonious battle with the new Vatican-Muslim alliance over whether the various charters that were signed could contain the words "abortion" and "contraception."
Meanwhile, entire nations are starving to death, while Americans watch it on television. Almost every day for the last month there has been at least one article in the Boston Globe about overpopulation. Many of them have stated clearly that the population is expected to double in twenty years. This news might as well be on the sports page; the spectacle continues without interruption."
"Drunk at the matinee" is a collection of candid poetry about stupid shit that we all experience from day to day.
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