The mustache gets political
A caucus for senators with facial hair?
Alexandra Owens, Allure magazineIt's the must-have accessory of every plaid-obsessed hipster in Brooklyn, but now the mustache is finding common ground in an unlikely place: Congress. This week Senator Angus King of Maine, himself the proud owner of a handsome silver 'stache, playfully suggested a caucus for senators with facial hair to discuss their...er...special-interest group. And the American Mustache Institute (yes, it exists) is pursuing the offer.
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An open letter from the institute to Senator King reads, "Indeed, in spite of our trepidation about creating a segregated environment on Capital Hill—ruggedly handsome Senators and Congressmen living as sexually dynamic Mustached Americans sitting in separate rooms from the clean-shaven mortals who fail to reach your level of intellectual excellence—the American Mustache Institute and Mustached American Community at-large welcome plans for the new caucus to represent the interests of all Americans with facial hair."
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It's unclear what these interests would be—tax cuts on razors? Equal-opportunity employment for barbers? But in any case, leave it to a grooming niche to bring people (OK, men) from across the aisle together. Ladies, may there someday be enough of us in Congress to need our own special-interest beauty caucuses.
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