This diary is dedicated to the President, satirists, Satyrists, nymphomaniacs, underage drinking, Socialism, Orson Welles, banana splits, Day-O, insanity, my wife and two wonderful teen-aged children, Carl Jung, Trotskyites, Charlie Chaplin, Bugs Bunny, masturbation, Calvin Trillin, and everyone who appreciates bad puns, forced rhymes, and elastic meter.
Special thanks to the wonderful guests at our second possibly-biannual New Year's Eve Party! You, for better or worse, inspired the following tripe. So beam with pride or hide your head in shame, but come on back for brunch this weekend- there's still a whole leg of lamb and tons more wine and champagne left in the fridge.
Par-tay!
Before we begin, a public service announcement for Rethugly-can't sympathizing trolls looking for yuks on our site:
GO AWAY.
Why do you hate America?
Poetry and bonus stream-of consciousness editorial rant below the fold...
A NEW YEAR'S DAY POEM
On New Year’s Eve, I did not grieve
The passing of the ‘Aughts, a decade
Fraught with fraud and fear and War on Terror,
The first act: Electoral theft
Five judges utterly bereft
The final farce: An explosives underwearer.
Regression was the reigning style
Our President was infantile
His Vice was twice as mean, a Torquemada
For all their snarls and tortured blather
Intelligence their henchmen gathered
Failed to win Iraq or halt Al-Que-ada
Philandering golfing Tigers, an embezzling Palm Beach Jews'
Collapsing Ponzi scheme, and drowning bears, Balloon Boy made the news
The fat-cat Wall Street bankers’ porcine attitudes made Main Street blue.
How fitting 09’s epidemic was called swine flu…
As for Barack? The great Black hope?
He's mostly been playing rope-a-dope
Thank goodness he escaped from being Gore'd
I pray the ‘Teens will be more kind
To his keen intellectual mind
And his progressive voice will be restored.
That's it for the poem.
Bonus Rah-Rah Editorial!
It took Ronnie Reagan and his unholy alliance of corporate sponsors and religious whack-jobs 25 years to nearly ruin this country. It will take at least as long for Progressives to truly restore it to sanity and humanity.
Starting in 2010, if we stay organized, focused, and promote and vote for progressive politics and politicians, we will accomplish great things.
YES WE CAN! SI SE PUEDE!
Amen.