walbourn | (no subject)

I got Obliviously On He Sails by Calvin Trillin for the holidays. I saw him in The Daily Show a few months back and loved his stuff. Here are some of my favorites:

Just Speculating

Loose sixties morals, Gingrich said,
Was where our troubles lay.
Then Newt himself was found to have
A tendancy to stray.

Rush Limbaugh has been hooked on pills,
While Bennett's hooked on slots.
Do all the right-wing morals police
Have coypbooks with blots?

Does Falwell have a floozie, say,
Does Ashcroft, you suppose,
Get home from church and swiftly snort
Some white stuff up his nose?

Does Robertson crave demon rum?
Does Cheney make clerks promise
To hide the fact that he's renting tapes
Last viewed by Clarence Thomas?

A Republican Discusses Taxes

Because they pay too much in taxes--
To feed the poor and fight the axis--
The rich are truely discommoded.
It spoils the fun of being loaded.
So we should tax the poor instead--
A tax on alms, or day-old bread.