I've written two song parodies about Dick Cheney's shooting a fellow hunter: "Don't Hunt With Dick Cheney" and "Faking Contrition." "Don't Hunt With Dick Cheney" begins:
Don't Hunt With Dick Cheney Song Parody (Sing to "On Top Of Old Smokey") By Madeleine Begun Kane
"Don't hunt with Dick Cheney. You might end up dead. He'll aim for your torso, Or even your head.
He'll claim it's a quail shoot, But that's just a front..."
My "Faking Contrition" song parody begins: Faking Contrition Song Parody (Sing to "Waltzing Matilda") By Madeleine Begun Kane
"Faking contrition. Faking contrition. Cheney feels bad that he shot his good friend. If you don't buy his story, you're a lib'ral Democrat. Leave him alone. This harassment must end.
Watch those right-wing pundits shouting on the TV tube, Claiming that Cheney didn't do nothing wrong..."
"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."