Just Memories

Remember the fallen: we must,
Even as we are filled with disgust
For recent abuses.
The simpler truth is
We remember when war could be just.

Your responsibility?

To Mr. Rumsfeld:

It was clear, from the very first day,
You'd be fighting the war your own way.
The Geneva Convention
Was ne'er your intention,
So why would the soldiers obey?

When you act toward the world like its cop,
The buck has but one place to stop.
We can only construe
That, by acts "of a few,"
You meant acts of the few at the top.

The Price of Arrogance
Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, 5/17/04

What more recommendation do you need?

I'm good enough;
I'm smart enough;
and doggone it, Republicans hate me!

I'm the fella you oughta be thankin'
For givin' George Bush a good spankin';
On American Air
There is no one as fair
Or as balanced as me, Al Franken.

Al Franken Show Blog
Air America

Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge,
unable to come up with a complete thought balloon
over the recent terrorist threat announcements


(unaltered photo from the AP)

To John Ashcroft:

So now your intelligence guys
Say the risk of attack's on the rise;
The malevolent seven
Aren't destined for heaven.
Should this come as a great big surprise?

Feds warn of terror attack
The Nasua Telegraph, 5/27/04

Cannes Do

Those keeping political score
On the real architects of the war
Will note, from now on,
The opinion in Cannes
As to peace: less is less; Moore is more.

Fahrenheit 9/11 Wins Palme d'Or
WorldPress.org, 5/23/04

Brown out

Fifty years since the Court took the view
That "separate but equal" was through.
It was only a tool,
Not the cure for your school.
So, don't ask, "What can 'Brown' do for you?"

Brown vs. Board of Education
NPR, 5/17/04

Let no one put asunder

Behold what has now come to pass
Between lad and lad; lass and lass
We'll remember this date
As gays celebrate
And line up to marry en Mass.

Gay Couples Marry in Massachusetts
NPR, 5/18/05

Do the pictures tell a story?

Who really is to blame?

When you study the look on each guard's face
You wonder who's also been scarred. Place
That soldier's young mind
In those horrors, unkind,
And they're caught 'tween Iraq and a hard place.

Four more years?

When the captors can play fast and loose
With the rules, well, there's just no excuse;
But what Bush has created
Can't be overrated
As a subtler form of abuse

Not Goin' ta Crawford

Despite the demands of his station,
And aware of the risk to the nation;
The Savant must postpone
The next sine qua non
Just because he deserves a vacation!

All the President's Plans

(To Mr. Bush:)

Mr. Woodward gives us the impression
That it wasn't Iraqi aggression;
But, from your first day,
The one thing in play
Was your clear and apparent obsession.

The Letter

Office of the Secretary
Department of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301-1000
April __, 2004

Dear Mrs. _________;

The message, I guess you suspect,
That your son won't be home, is correct.
Outside of Fallujah,
His squad met a huge
Attack that we did not expect.

Sincerely,

Donald H. Rumsfeld

The Prez Sez:

The outlook for jobs isn't black.
The recovery, you see, is on track.
My plans for employment
Include the deployment
Of thousands more troops in Iraq.

A Brief Comment

Don't you think our Commander-in-Chief's
Lack of knowledge defies all beliefs?
So if more P.D.B.'s
Were to get a release
Mr. Bush would be caught in his briefs.

Condo for Rent

Condoleezza Rice demonstrates President Bush's
"fly swatting" technique to the 9/11 Commission

Even though she would testify twice,
The commission was not making nice.
So, while breaking for lunch,
One was left with the hunch
That the menu included steamed Rice.

Does he appreciate the irony?

"... 'we'll decide the course of democracy by the use of force,' and that is the opposite of democracy"

- George W. Bush 4/5/04

Is this picture worth a thousand lives?

The War President
courtesy of Joe at American Leftist

Manufactured Jobs?

To Mr. Bush -

Like the truest, conservative snob
Who looks down his nose at the mob;
You've cut unemployment
By timely deployment
Of that cunning new plan: the McJob.

15 Minutes of Irony

If it's true "what is past is prologue,"
Mr. Warhol cut straight through the fog.
If you want to lay claim
To your minutes of fame,
Then your future belongs to the blog!

No Fooling

Lest you worry your group might be missed,
We'll attempt, now, to give you the gist:
To prevent killing error,
Qaeda's primer of terror
Now includes everyone on the list.

Trumped

His reality show is inspired,
But his gambling casinos are mired
In stacks of big debt.
So waddaya bet,
The Don tells the Donald, "You're fired?"

He Bangs!

He's the hero that won't go unsung,
Even if, from the bottommost rung.
Who better to rival
American Idol
Than a fellow who's also Will Hung?

Listen

Do as I say, not as I do

By acting so quick on the draw
Sharon can't escape this one flaw:
If you're the assassin,
Your actions won't pass in
A world that expects rule of law.

World anger after Hamas killing
BBC News, 3/23/04

Blog from the Bog

The Savant has been looking for a more immediate method of publishing his semi-weekly rants on the news and the other nonsense that surrounds him. And, lo and behold, he discovers the blog! Yes, he is a little slow on the uptake.

Yet he now realizes that, for the past three years, his website has basically been a weblog, only with a lot more effort. So he now intends to focus primarily on posting to this new blog and only occasionally updating the website. Apologies to all his current fans but he hopes this decision will help him concentrate on his first love, the limerick.

For those unfamiliar with his peculiar brand of commentary, I sugggest you click on the link below to sample some of his past efforts.