Taking the bus to my Monday night gig,

I ran into a co-worker; she asked me

if I was going to vote and, if so,who I was voting for;

I told her I had already voted absentee

for Barack Obama 

Unsolicited, another woman on the bus  

offered that she was voting … Read full post »

Champagne if Obama

whisky for McCain and, in

case he dies, Drano

Nearly two hundred

grand for Palin's makeover, they

should've got Tim Gunn

Whither progress:  our

society turns uncivil,

rude; wither progress. Read full post »

Note: this post will be a departure from the usual haiku format.

Reporters, on the whole, are quite keen on the horse race metaphor when discussing Presidential elections.  While they do use horse racing terms, sometimes even correctly, it's clear that most political reporters are no… Read full post »

Kool-Aid my ass, the

Republicans seem to be

drinking Ipicac

Senator McCain

when you sold your soul did Rove

give you market price?

Mr. Reid, why must

the Democrats always do

Bush's donkey work ?

Pharoah Sanders at

Catalina, with Billy

Higgins on drums, yeah!

The Flaming Lips at

Stache's, 1996

everyone was there

The Muhal Richard

Abrams Big Band, '95

Chicago jazz fest

Sun Ra, also at

Stache's, about a year before

he suffered a stroke

Arena rock is

a… Read full post »

The maxim reads 'Buy

low, sell high,' but it seems Wall

Street did it backwards

Damn Yankees, they trick

me into not hating them

at least for one day

Daisy Duck is a

saucy little bird, and I

don't mean l'orange

The most negative

campaign tactic ever: just

give 'em enough rope

Maybe they could crack

open a book and read it

LMAO

The Death Penalty

some deserve to die, I guess

just not by the state Read full post »

The Senator was

a maverick once, sure, but

so was  James Garner Read full post »

It isn't that I

hate everyone, I just

don't like anybody

You can put lipstick

on a pit bull, but better

still to neuter it Read full post »