Today's post is long overdue. The Nation's Deadline Poet (Calvin Trillin) ways more in four lines that are both pithy and droll. This is a tribute to dictum that "Less is more,." And beginning today, this blog repeats what should become the Anthem of the Resistance: "The Liar Tweets Tonight." Pass it on to other Resisters.
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"The Liar Tweets Tonight" (Parody of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight")
By Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters, featuring Sandy Riccardi
And the blogger owes an H/T to an old college chum of the blogger and this blog for the link to the genius parody that has become this blogger's current earworm. And so, if this is a (fair & balanced) first step toward doing the right thing, so be it.
[x The Nation]
Pattern
By The Deadline Poet (Calvin Trillin)
TagCrowd Cloud provides a visual summary of the blog post below
Trump demands that governors “be appreciative” of his Coronavirus
response.—news reports
The governors seeking equipment from Trump
Know praise is the path to a hearing.
Extortion’s Trump’s game, as it was with Ukraine—
For flattery this time, not smearing. ###
[Calvin Trillin, the author of Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Election in Rhyme (2008), is The Nation’s “Deadline Poet.” He has been acclaimed in fields of writing that are remarkably diverse. As someone who has published solidly reported pieces in The New Yorker for 40 years, he has been called “perhaps the finest reporter in America.” His wry commentary on the national scene and his books chronicling his adventures as a “happy eater” have earned him renown as “a classic American humorist.” His About Alice (2006)—a 2007 New York Times bestseller that was hailed as “a miniature masterpiece”—followed two other best-selling memoirs, Remembering Denny (1993) and Messages from My Father (1996). Trillin received a BA (English) from Yale University (CT).]
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