"We like to wait until kids are a little older to talk to them about things like...condoms and ritualistic human sacrifice for harvest"

When Prof. Sexson mentioned "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson in class today, a lightbulb went off right above my head......figuratively. =D I don't really watch South Park, but in one of the episodes I have seen, they parody this very short story! In the South Park episode, the entire world is making Britney Spears' life a living hell so that she'll kill herself and the farmers will have a good corn harvest. In the end, they have to kill her with their cameras. If you watch the full episode, the last scene is the most eerie...the townspeople turn to a running newscast of Miley Cyrus...their next victim. I couldn't believe how accurate their storyline was in relation to the original text! They even threw in a line about "little Davy", a character from the short story. Anyway, check out the story if you're interested and then watch this clip I found.