Monday, May 10, 2010

In Defense of the Mustache

Many unkind words have been said recently about our friend the mustache. Some go so far as to say it was spanned from the utmost depths of Dante’s Inferno and sent to plague man for all eternity. Still others claim that was indeed Pandora’s Box that unleashed this “Horror of Horrors”. Mustaches have been associated with Communist, Fascism, and perhaps worst of all, the music of “Kings of Leon”. "Scourge of the Earth", "A Crime Against Humanity", "Plague that Threatens Society Itself."

However we must ask ourselves this question: Is the concept of a mustache actually natural, and even above natural, is it desirable? The answer my friends could not be more clear in my mind, for my answer is yes, yes, one thousand times yes. Let the rallying cry of the mustache be heard in every street and avenue across this great country, nay, across the globe. Let it echo on the heights of the tallest mountain and in the deepest crevice of the Earth. Let the entire world hear the refrain, from the youngest newborn male to the man on his deathbed.

The mustache lives! From the Fu Manchu to the pencil stache, I cast my lot with Jimi Hendrix, with Johnny Depp, Salvador Dali and Friedrich Nietzsche, with every man willing to take a stand for what he knows in his heart to be true: Mustaches are God’s personal gift to mankind, designed to worn with pride!