Ode To Takeout: Song Parody Cooked Up By A Non-Cook
In a brief departure from political humor, I've written an Ode To Takeout:
Ode To Takeout (Sing To My Favorite Things) By Madeleine Begun Kane
"Baked meat lasagna and Indian curry. Sesame noodles. I'm famished! Please hurry! Buddha's Delight that is fit for a king. Takeout is one of my favorite things.
Greek beef moussaka and cheese ravioli. Brocc'li and eggplant, stir fried with aioli...
"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."