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Pants on Fire

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:57:00 -0500

What I admire most of all
About our newest president
Is how he has the unfazed gall
To lie about what’s evident,
To wit, inauguration crowds
Whose size he said a pic beclouds.

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Worse than the Worst

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 13:11:00 -0500

My current fear is not what he
Will do or won’t. Knows not himself.
An addlebrained mentality
Betrays a self-deluded elf
Whose looking glass reflects pastiche,
Those indie picks without a lease.
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Talking Like a Duck

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:19:00 -0500

A wounded duck he’s well become,
But lame, as though forever hurt?
Like Aflac’s, ever optimum,
At times when doomsday critics blurt,
He’s got to brawl to guarantee
Obamacare’s his legacy.
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He'll Get His

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 3 Aug 2013 15:55:00 -0400

Regardless if you thought the price
He ought to pay was life in jail,
Or death. No matter, both suffice.
And in the end alike prevail.
In cases monstrous such as this,
His cell or yard's his last abyss.
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Uncle Peeper

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:10:00 -0400

I wish I worried more about
The feds‘ observing whom I’ve called
And who’s called me in case they doubt
My loyalty and thus forestalled
Dark hopes of zapping Washington
To aid Iran or just for fun.
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By George

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:57:00 -0400

No longer must one go to school
To shoot and kill and then succumb.
Like Zimmerman, why play the fool?
Make Trayvon-Martin types look dumb:
The sort who in the dark pursued
Are going to stand their ground and feud
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Patience Please

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 21:33:00 -0400

What else is it besides a coup,
Which we decline to recognize?
And doing so appear untrue
To liberty in others’ eyes.
Elected to a four-year term
Last year as Egypt’s president,
Mohamed Morsi, let’s affirm,
Though somewhat less than heaven sent,
Unless in what one sees but good,
His diehard Muslim Brotherhood.
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Modern Antiquity

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:59:00 -0400

It’s quaint that Francis 1 has cooked
His meals and taken trains to work.
But what I fear he’s overlooked,
A new pope can no longer shirk
Within his clergy, sins immense:
Abuse brought on by abstinence.
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More than Skin Deep

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:32:00 -0500

In Washington, the Redskins’ name
Has properly come under fire.
Unreasonably put to shame,
Minorities detect their ire
When others make them feel chagrin
For just the color of their skin.
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When to Ask Questions Later

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:28:00 -0500

The stealthy use of U.S. drones
To execute Americans
Abroad who menace us brings groans
From civil libertarians
Back home who say don’t hence take lives.
Abuse without due process thrives.
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When Jenny Goes Marching Off

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:25:00 -0500

If women want a combat role,
They ought to have the very chance
That men do, letting both control
How fast and far careers advance.
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Electoral Kindergarten

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:33:00 -0500

I love it. Having failed to win
With shorter early-polling hours
Or picture ID cards akin
To paring Blue States’ voting powers,
In some their GOP now floats
A ploy for counting national votes.
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The Ties that Free

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:11:00 -0500

He could have shown more eloquence
By clinging to the ritual
Of splendid thoughts but at expense
Of grist in an Inaugural.
He found instead more plans to pump
As though back on the campaign stump.
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Unsportsmanlike Conduct

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:40:00 -0500

For sure police know more than I
About who lies or tells the truth,
Though how could anybody spy
(Unless mixed up—or super sleuth)
The years of drug use he denied
Until too clearly, he had lied?
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Unc's Funk

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:20:00 -0500

At first he might look only miffed;
He’d never bounced a check before.
But when the Chinese give short shrift
To pleas to wait a little more
For payments on their hefty loans
The sounds he‘ll make are heartfelt moans.
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Insanity's Nadir

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:07:00 -0500

The N.R.A.’s Wayne LaPierre
In lecturing the nation’s press
On how the country must beware
Of classroom kills that leave a mess
From kids whose lives had just begun,
Proposed a good guy with a gun.
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Now or Never

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:51:00 -0500

Just maybe as a nation we
This time can see the slain as prey
And not, as kooks would have them be,
Fit martyrs for the N.R.A.
To propagate a greater cause
For ever looser weapons laws.
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Here Come the Brides, and Grooms

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 1 Dec 2012 09:46:00 -0500

In some states fifty years ago
If whites wed blacks, they broke the law.
Today in thirty-one, Jim Crow
Might tip his hat at what he saw:
Gay couples who can’t tie the knot.
Why? Legislators’ tommyrot!
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Yes, to a Two-State Solution

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:32:00 -0500

More so than ever, Palestine
Deserves acceptance as a state.
Its moderates are in decline,
And Gaza’s shambles elevate
The Strip’s Hamas regime from hell.
Whose goal’s the death of Israel.
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Unholiest of Wars

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:45:00 -0500

I’ve never had much confidence
In second-guessing Israel,
For sure in matters of defense
When neighbors’ hate turns visceral.
Each time they’ve foolishly attacked
They’ve got their Muslim fannies whacked
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Underexposed

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:36:00 -0500

It’s more than just some juicy poop
About who knew what dirt and when.
It’s why high-ups weren’t in the loop
(Or if in point of fact were then).
The rest of us were surely not.
As campaigns raged, we knew not squat.
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Those Few

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:21:00 -0500

A memo to admissions deans:
If you recruit a quarterback
Who’s short of smarts as well as means,
Admit, please, vets, home from Iraq
And combat in Afghanistan
With brains, though reeling still from fright,
Yet bound to be all that they can,
Rejoicing when they sleep at night.
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Well Worth The Wait

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:51:00 -0500

At polls the exclamation point
Was those in line disposed to wait
Though sure the networks would anoint
Barack as winner of their state.
They knew, suppressed, but still enrolled,
Revenge is best when served up cold.
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A Newer Deal

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 4 Nov 2012 10:43:00 -0500

As we get set to pull our troops
A decade in Afghanistan
As from Iraq where they’d been dupes
For Bush’s futile battle plan
In search of fancied weaponry,
I offer what might first sound daft
To caustic peaceniks such as me:
Agree to reinstate the draft.
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More Is On The Way

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 2 Nov 2012 16:47:00 -0400

Our country’s most horrific storm
Should give the harshest skeptics pause
For thought about when oceans warm
And climatologists have cause
To say almost beyond a doubt
It gave bitch Sandy massive clout.
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