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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

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

Mild Subversion: transatlantic political verse from Robert Hanrott

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

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

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Sure, the news is bad.
But, cheer up. It could be verse.

Should have been our motto, but it belongs to the great Gene Weingarten, as he does news poems professional-style in this week's Post.