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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