A
A Better Life Awaits
A Canary in a Coal Mine
A clever pile of molecules
A clip job
A Commencement Address Without a Bill Attached
A cruel mistress
A distinction should be made
A fat cat's fat
A Government of Shame
A Government Song
A Hearty Menu
A Lawyer's Lesson
A Litany of Finger Pointing
A Litany of Symptoms
A Losing Proposition
A Messenger from God
A Scientific Hit
A Sing-Song Song to Sing
A steady diet
A Sunshiny Thought
A Ticklish Spot
A Tiny Lie
A Unicorn Named Ira
A Vase of Carnations
A World of Numbers
A Working Class Classified
Absolutely
Act of God
Advice to the Pessimist
After-dinner Mint
Albert Gore
All God's Chillun Got Credit Cards
All is one
All the news is screaming
All Things in Moderation
America the Bountiful
American Cads
An ant hill knows
Answers
Apocalypse sometime
Argument Postponed
Art
At the trough
B
Bad Little Boys
Ballad of the Love Child
Beethoven ripped
Bird Songs (three poems)
Black Markets
Bureaucracy
Bright Boys
Bubbles
Bugs Bunny Votes
Bulls
Burglars do that
Burn, Baby, Burn
Burn, Baby, Burn II
Bursting Bubbles
Busted
Busy as a little bee
Buy the lie and kill the truth
By Rivers of Thought
C
Can and can't
Can you keep a secret?
Career Politicians' Questions
Cash flow - a parody on Cole Porter's classic song, "True Love"
Chains
Chased Away
Checkmate
Cherished Cultural Myths
Chicago Poem
Chicago Poem II
Chicago Poem III
Chicanery
Chocolate trees
Choice
Chump Change
Chump Change - variations on "Mulberry Bush"
Cigarette Smoke
Clever Death, Stupid Death
Cock-Up
Comes the day
Comfortable and convenient
Conjugating Hitler
Consensus
Continents do not float
Corruption
Criminal Truth
Crisis
Critics
Crush the bourgeoisie
D
Darwin's God
Dazzling
Dead soon enough
Death Knell for the Maids
Debt
Default on Debt
Deficits
Democracy is stupid
Disjunct
Dissent
Diversity
Dizzy Dent
Drink yourself sober
Do it your own way
Doctor Oppression comes to call
Doses of Delusion
Down the drain
E
Earth Hour Follies
Easy comes hard
Economics 101
Either One or the Other
Embarrassed
Equality
Errors
Everything's about my colored skin
Excessive Demand
Extremely Green
F
Failure
Farmers and Alarmers
Fascist is as fascist does
Fat, fat government
Fiblical Prophecy
First
Foolish men were ruling
For Your Common Good
Freddie and Fannie and Barney and Frank
Free
Free-market reforms
Free Money
Freedom is freedom is freedom
Friend Or Foe
From Ivied Walls and Towers
Full Circle
Fund Raising
Fusspots and nannypants
G
George the Bush
Gimme
Glory
God ain't white
Good Old Obfuscation
Government numbers
Government Speaks
Grace Before Meals
Green Job
Grievance
H
Happy Ending
He plunks his money down
Heavenly Days
He's the bride
Hey diddle diddle
Hillarious
History Lesson
Hook, line and sinker
Hot and Blue
Hot House
Hot House Ballads (four poems)
Hotel Stupidity
How is it
How much is that politician's favor?
Human Nature
Human thug rights
Hurt Feelings
Hymn for Today
I
I am god, and I'm in charge
I don't care
I mean to help
I Need Another Credit Card
I need no boots
I prefer a vital God
I Shall Believe the Socialist
I shall not join the party
I squeezed the golden goose
I want to spend
I will tinker as I please
Icarus meets the sun
Ice Cream
Ideology
If it's serious, you lie
If life is worth the living
I'll use my freedom
I'm sorry
I'm very fond of Cummings' words
In a Church Parking Lot
In a kindly manner
In a moment of candor
In the workers' paradise
Inappropriate Things
Incidents of Idiocy
Income Inequality
Islamophobia
It Doesn't Help
It Is Not Fair
It was a cross
It's a gas
It's only a matter of....
It's too hot, and it's too cold
J
Jackass
Johnny B Blue and Suzy Q
Jones' little van
Jumbled
Just Because
Just two
Justice
K
Kick the can
Kicks
Killer kills killer
Kurfürstenstraße 115/116
L
Lazy Bones
Leadership Failure
Leave me be
Left and Right
Left is Right, as Right is Left
Lemmings
Lessons Are
Let us feign surprise again
Let's all gorge
Let's have some quail, by George
Let's All Sacrifice
Let's borrow
Let's take that leaking lifeboat
Life
Light the Lamps
Like a Duck to Water
Little is enough
Little Man
Little Questions
Love
Love is cool or love is hot
Love Songs for Dorothy
Love you, too!
M
Meetings
Merry-go-round
Metaphor
Missus Pee
Mister, I've seen
Mister Big Top Green
Modern Art
Modern Times and Charity
Moral Relativism
Musicological Marx
Musicology
Modern Slavery
More for less
Mulligan Stew
My Faults
My High School History Class
My way or the highway
N
Naturally no one steals anything
Never, Ever Call It Greed
Never forget
Ninety-nine
No Asterisk
No Body Blues
No Dignity
No God is the god for me
No matter
No More Nonsense
No moss growing on this rock
No One Likes "I Told You So"
No Place
Nobel for Today
None of your damn business
Nonsense
nuttin like a goal
O
O golly
O shitty, little cities in the dell
Odd, is it not?
Ode to the Indiana Teachers Union
Oh it's always someone else's fault
Old Age Blues
Old Radicals
Oh, to Walk a While in Hitler's Shoes
On a Candidate's Platform
On a Winter's Day
On the Old Modern Malaise
One World
Oops
Opaque Transparency
Opposites
Orwell's Pigs
P
Passive? Quiz him!
Past Tense Verbs
Peace at all costs
People like to freeload
Perfect Sense
Pig
Pigs don't fly
Pleasant words for ugly things
Poetry
Politicians at any price
Politics
Politics is where the pig
Poli-words
Ponzi states
Pork Philosopher
Post-rapture Possibilities
Powerless Powers
Prayer
Prayer for the Common Good
President Cool
Pretty damn smart
Pretty darn fucked
Privatization
Profitable Irony
Progressive Conceit
Psalm 16
Pump
Purely Pure Purity
Q
Questions In Answer to a Silly Question
R
Raise those taxes!
Ratio
Reading the Words Right
Red
Red is a game, much like Green
Responsibility
Revising History
Revolutionary Economics
Rhetorical Tides
Right and Wrong
Rob a Peter to Pay a Paul
Romance Novel
Room A-460
Rules for Hunting
Running of the bulls
S
Salvation for Today
Sarah and Sandy and Sally and Sue
Save me
Scare Tactics
Science has limits
Seek peace and pay its cost
Senator Crooked and Congressman Hoax
Shared Sacrifice
Shearing and Fleecing
Sheer Ignorance
Shifting Sands
Shoveling
Si mundus vult decipi
Silly You
Simple Arithmetic
Sing a song of stupid
Sketcherie
Smoke and Mirrors
Social Tensions
Socialism's Last Hurrah
Socialists love money
Soldiers
Solitude
Some Days Are Diamonds
Some people will
Sometimes
Songs for the Victims of AIDS (five poems)
Stab the straw man
Starvation
Statistics
Steal Away
Sticks and Stones
Stirred Up
Succinct
Surrealism Lessons
Sweet Sung Praises
T
Take Me Back to the Ball Game
Tale of the Makers and the Takers
Talk is cheap
Tell it to the ice caps
Tell Me
The anti-gun guy
The Austerity Game, American Style
The big bad wolf of nations
The bill for good intentions
The Bureaucrat's Memo
The Classic Scheme
The Carol of Realpolitik
The colors of man
The counters of coin
The Dishwashers' Song
The Doomsday Clock
The Double Standard Song
The Dumb-Dumb Tree
The Dust Settles
The End Game of Conformity
The end of the world
The Fruit of the Money Tree
The Highway of History
The Hockey-Stick Man
The Kindly Radical
The Modern Politician
The Modern, Super Rich
The new, wonderful good society
The New Man
The Once Great British Bulldog
The One God, Praise
The People's Bill
The Privileges of Intellectuals
The Quilt
The religion of peace
The same old story
The Scourge of the Planet
The Seller of a Bill of Goods
The Sharp Shooter
The Social Democrat's Song
The Social Justice Game
The straw that breaks the camel's back
The Sum and End of It
The Truth
The Voice Box
The Wisest of Men
The World Is Coming To An End
They're not talking
Thick as thieves
Thin-skinned
Things I Like
Three Abortion Carols
Three Little Democrats
Three Songs for Roger
Throw Away the Mold
To Party Members
To Reap Without Sewing
Tolerance
Tomorrow comes
Too
Too much debt
Top Ten List
Topsy Turvy
Totalitarian
Trolley Car
Troubles
Trust us
Trying Prayer
Two-Party Politics
U
Up on the little guy
W
Waltz of the Promiscuous
We All Believe
We Get Nothing
We really love our notion
Welfare Queen
We've got nothin' to do
We've got to fight these battles
What About It?
What does it all mean?
What the hell
What's a half a billion dollars
When a radical comes to power
When the cash cow cashes out
White is black
Who Am I?
Whoopi
Whoppers, lies and fabrications
Whose gonna pull the welfare wagon
Why
Witness
Worries
Would it matter, anyhow?
Wouldn't you like to have some cash?
Wrong is right
Y
Yawn
Yes, No and Maybe
Yesterday
You got it
You May But
yup
STORIES AND OTHER NONSENSE by title
A Short History of Mayor Potholes
An Allegory of Meals
As American as Apple Pie
Celebrate Diversity?
Donkey Skins and Elephant Hides
Jesus was a socialist?
Kellogg-Briand - 1928
Seeds
Simply Not Good Enough
The angry storyteller
The Law of Logical Argument
The Nose
The Queen of Upper Downerstuff
The Slop Pails and the Pig
The Story of Innocent Bloat
The Story of Mother Mirror
Today's Story of Waste