The human litter is just fine
Escaping until it is their time
To be eulogized by critics, who surely would
Deem them, like the famous, no damned good

Comment by Ken Jensen – April 24, 2007 @ 11:58 am

How is it that we should respect the dead
so nary a word would ever be said
about decisions made, both poor and scary?
Actually, that sounds like The Economist’s obituary!

Comment by John – April 24, 2007 @ 3:26 pm

So that I might be understood:
It’s not only the famous
Who are no damned good.
Pundits, too, are included in,
With the litter, Original Sin.

With Adam, though, one must agree:
Boris did better than McGeorge B.
Human beings, being human,
Do bad despite famous acumen.
Try their best, they still prescribe
The wrong pill for our hapless tribe.
Is dumb boldness a better course
Than expertise events to force?
Take our presidents: that would seem
To cloud the issue, one would deem.

So we must take what we can get:
Take Boris or George, who may be right yet.
The aforementioned human litter
Will suffer, but is hardly fitter.

Comment by Ken Jensen – April 26, 2007 @ 4:29 pm

In my mind the question that remains,
is how to save society from the litter making gains
exploiting the voters’ ‘rational ignorance’
and adding pork to legislation meant for defense?

France might stagnate with high unemployment
but only 16% didn’t vote last week,
and that’s an accomplishment!
So clearly democracy isn’t always efficient
but it’s the best we have… for the moment.

Charming agricultural protectionists,
fight on K Street (Washington’s cyst)
against the logic of economic efficiency,
which Truman was a visionary to see
the dangers of the M.I.C.

It’s a shame it isn’t widely known
“congressional” was originally the keystone
in Truman’s warning of those who waste
hard-earned tax revenues with great haste

But really what I would like to see
is a world where all are free
to go about their life’s commute
with happiness as their only pursuit
(Free of any totalitarian jackboot,
and Boris, for that goal, I salute!
Though all would have preferred a less corrupt route…)

Comment by John – April 30, 2007 @ 4:41 pm