I've finally managed to add audio to my blog and have recorded my last few political poems and song parodies as podcasts.
In my latest blog post and podcast, I comment on and (in the case of my podcast) sing about Cheney's claim that the Iraq insurgency is in its last throes. Here's how Cheney's Last Throes begins:
Cheney's Last Throes (Sing To "On Top Of Old Smokey") By Madeleine Begun Kane
Dick says the insurgents Are in their last throes, The war's almost over, We're beating our foes.
Iraq violence surges. It's gotten much worse. Yet Cheney keeps telling Lies chapter and verse.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."