My son sent me a link to a New York Times front-page article today (a
propos something we'd been e-talking about). I'd already read the
article in the preferred format (hard copy g), but wasted some time
checking out the periferals, so that I could refer him back to
another one, in the op-ed section, which I thought was even more
important, for everyone in the US.
Please check (if you can; the URL looks peculiar to me g):
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/opinion/13herbert.html?
n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fBo
b%20Herbert
Also, for those who like Alice in Wonderland, here's a take off on
Jabberwocky... Part of my 4th year U grammar exam was to parse the
original; this one's easier :)
nicholaskristof - 4:42 PM ET September 9, 2004 (#586 of 588)
Readers know Im a soft touch for poetry. One reader wrote this satire
of Jabberwocky:
The Jabberwonks
'Twas bush league, and the slimy droves
Of rightwingnuts loved condibabe;
While powells, ashcrofts, cheneys, roves,
And rumsfelds abu ghraib.
Beware the Jabberwonks, my son!
Their clauses mean, their verbs agree --
Beware the tax! said Forty-one;
... the facts! heard Forty-three.
He took his verbal word in mouth
Long time the media he conned:
He grinned and quipped If there's no script
Then I need not respond!
He stood there not responding when
The Jabberwonks showed photographs
Of tortured captives Rummy's men
Had tormented for laughs.
Just one or two! At most a few!
The verbal word denied, denied,
Denied command of those it canned
And, in courts martial, tried.
And hast thou gamed the Jabberwonks,
With talk of honor where there's none;
Is oil still squirtin' for Halliburton?
Oh, what a good job you've done!
'Twas bush league, and the slimy droves
Of rightwingnuts loved condibabe;
While powells, ashcrofts, cheneys, roves,
And rumsfelds abu ghraib.
---
Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet:
no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush.
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