nightquill

Occasional light verse, mostly political. If you're looking for a certain cold medicine, try here. But we can put you to sleep cheaper.

Something like political humor is to be found in all these places -- or simply politics, or simply humor

For some sharp and stimulating political commentary, see my good friend Lee's blog The Passionate Center

The Austin Lounge Lizards

Obliviously On He Sails by Calvin Trillin, the Deadline Poet of The Nation

The Almost Perfect State by Don Marquis

The Style Invitational, a fantastic weekly humor contest in The Washington Post, and its fanatical band of regulars.

Molly Ivins, the columnist who should be President

Below the Beltway a weekly column by Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post

Colin McEnroe a weekly columnist for the Hartford (CT) Courant

David Jaggard's Quorum of One

Mild Subversion: transatlantic political verse from Robert Hanrott

Catch up with the outrages you might have missed at Orwell's Grave.

The guy who is going to get sued just before I do.

"These ... surpass Calvin Trillin's weekly efforts." --An Anonymous Source in the State Department

"It's ... verse." --The Passionate Center

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

some housekeeping

Comments may now be posted by anyone; apologies for not defeating the default setting earlier that disallowed it.

Our* father** pointed out that the preceding entry might be misconstrued. We would like to make it clear that we do not believe sanctimoniousness to be any more prevalent among gentiles than Jews; we were merely congratulating Sen. Lieberman for being the first major Jewish politician, that we know of, to use it for political advantage.

*Editorial plural.
**Literal father, lower-case.