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Bureaucracy Thwarts Ambitious Muppet

By Warren Rojas
Posted May 11, 2015 at 12:52pm

Ernie Sanders, we barely knew thee.  

The politically inclined puppet learned the hard way real people don’t appreciate when fantasy beings intrude on their livelihoods.

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