All ye Poets of the Age!
All ye Witlings of the Stage!
Learn your Jingles to reform!
Crop your Numbers and Conform....
And guess what the Wisconsin Senate did in spite? They took away labor's collective bargaining rights. In strong sympathy (not), the NFL players gave up their own negotiations, and the team owners locked them out. So now we have no football, no teachers, and no Wisconsin Democrats. What else is there for the TV pundits to talk about?
Well, as luck would have it, Japan saved the day by conjuring up an epic 8.9 earthquake and tsunami to take our mind off of our own miseries. A nuclear reactor appears ready to spew forth not far from Hiroshima. Maybe we'll have to rethink the old saying that "when God closes a door, he opens a window" - a least until the threat of radiation has passed.
Meanwhile back in Wisconsin, would it surprise you that Governor Walker did not finish college? And at least one source says he lost a student government election to a write-in candidate because of a voting irregularity. You don't have to be a Freudian to speculate that some of this unpleasantness is latent contrition. "Let the Verse the Subject fit; Little Subject, Little Wit."
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