My latest post comments on Judge Sam Alito's Supreme Court nomination, his integrity or lack thereof, his wife's just pretend tears, and the likelihood of a filibuster. It includes five Sam Alito poems in different formats, starting with this one:
If Not Now, Then When? By Madeleine Begun Kane
Will Senate Dems preserve our rights And filibuster Sam? How 'bout it Dems? Let's see you fight And prove you give a damn.
Cause Democrats must do much more Than talk and primp and bluster. It's time for Dems to show some guts And Sammy filibuster.
"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
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"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."