Nobody 862

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Nobody # 862

Nobody Asked Me But:

In times of war, the law falls silent. - Cicero

Seeing Stonehenge is one of my great travel experiences. The picture above was taken and rendered by Barbara's brother, Tom.

That Was The Week That Was – As always, each of these short verses is based on a news event that happened during the past week.

Once more LA Times prints their value-add list

Of teachers who don’t make the grade

Since they know public shame

Goes along with the name

Any good by the bad is outweighed

The new stamp has not the real Statue

And the story behind it’s not pretty

A demented dork

Skipped the gal from New York

In her place put the one from Sin City

The Tea Party is holding its convention

The circus has come to town

Since Trump gave the keynote

It’s ok if we note

They’ve already sent in the clown

More states are restricting abortions

They think that their fight’s nearly won

They play fetal cop

Say abortions must stop

Unless their dear daughter needs one

Strong women all over the telly

From standard cop shows to cool thrillers

And for clearly the best

Far ahead of the rest

Check AMC’s great show The Killers

Please say it’s not so Bobby Dylan

You could not have sold out for the cash

You who rights wrongs

Let them censor your songs

When you played at that Chinese red bash

I’m not religious but still I do wish

That the President would use power more fully

Where sometimes he skates

He would win more debates

If he would just use his pulpit that’s bully

They say that to live to one hundred

To bounce back from stress is the deal

If that word is sound

It turns history around

Hello again Norm Vincent Peale

I used to enjoy going driving

If I say I still do it’s a lie

What I pay at the pump

Turns me into a grump

Gas prices are higher than sky

To Ashland I’ve been many times

And I’ll go back again though it’s far

For Shakespearian Fair

And something more rare

Their firemen give pets CPR

Montreal was in conflict last Thursday

Elections v. Stanley Cup vice

There was a federal debate

But they said that can wait

‘Till the Habs put the Bruins on ice

The polls show that Brits want Prince William

To be their new king very soon

Looking past wedding cake

He’s a monarch who’ll make

The British Isle ladies all swoon

Then what is to happen to Charles

His love life still makes the Brits wince

He may have been rude

A royal crude dude

But he will forever be Camilla’s prince

Of the greatest young arms in the majors

The Dodgers have one of the best

Bats bow down in awe

To Clayton Kershaw

Who’s on a Cy Young Award quest

In the Holland they have to learn Dutch

In France they can’t wear a veil

The immigrant’s new lot

Happy it’s not

In Arizona they’re all put in jail

Atlas Shrugged is a very long tome

It’s truly a book for the ages

Fast, Rand is not

When advancing her plot

One speech takes fifty-two pages

Ayn Rand says it is caring for others

That has us all living in tatters

What’s all the big fuss

There is never an us

It’s only just me really matters

Boob bracelets are out in their classrooms

To wear them, said no is the answer

This Penn. school crackdown

Earned the judge’s deep frown

These kids are just fighting breast cancer

Occasionally the media hits sport’s dark side hard

And comes out with a great expose’

That’s only fitting

But between the hard hitting

They ignore the dirt day after day

Pres candidates must prove they were born

If to be on our ballot they seek

We are not joke’n

Arizona has spoken

This is our dumb law for this week

Don Sterling’s the worst of all owners

Here’s one out of hundreds of reasons

The Clipps seldom soar

They’ve lost 50 or more

In 22 of their last 30 seasons

And finally, on the percentage of Planned Parenthood work that results in abortions:

Senator Jon Kyle claimed it ninety percent

While three percent is the actual

When asked ’bout gaffe

Kyle just laughed

“I was certainly not trying to be factual”

The Informationist by Taylor Stevens

Taylor Stevens, who survived a harrowing childhood in a cult, has written an excellent debut novel. There are a few places where her inexperience shows through – but only a few.

Vanessa Michael Monroe has quite a bit in common with Lisbeth Sallander – she is young, damaged, brilliant and very tough. Her specialty is gathering information. Her skills, honed by a long period of torture and training in Africa, are deadly. Vanessa is hired by the billionaire owner of an oil company to find his daughter, missing for over four years in a small African country. Before Vanessa is finished, she will have been betrayed and almost being killed twice.

MOVIE REVIEW – ATLAS SHRUGGED

Peter Travers (Rolling Stone): "Ayn Rand's monumental 1,168-page, 1957 novel gets the low-budget, no-talent treatment and sits there flapping on screen like a bludgeoned seal."

It will be nice to be in Nice on my birthday

And have a glass of vin extraordinaire

We will walk along Med’s beach

Our few troubles out of reach

And dine on escargot if we dare