day before yesterday
yesterday, today…
mountain cuckoo
we make one more very specific plea to America’s media, in a desperate attempt to preserve
the sanity of the nation:
Please stop saying “vote early and often” or variations thereon
Your editor’s humble hope: by next Wednesday, we will no longer have to hear the
above-referenced phrase (which is attributed to Chicago Mayor William Hale Thompson) AND
Prediction: deserved or not, with thousands of attorneys-at-election in high lawsuit alert, we will be hearing a lot more cursing at lawyers this week, and quoting of Shakespeare’s Dick the Butcher (see Shakespeare and Lawyers), should litigation prevent an election decision by early Wednesday. (see our Election Day plea.)
Prediction: Coronation of a former ballet dancer in Phnon Penh does not foreshadow 
the re-coronation of a former male cheer leader along the Potomac.
Quixotic
Jim Moore is dreaming of a Boston
triple crown. We’d settle for the first two legs.
community’s sad history of lingusitic violence — amplifying upon the onomatopoetic “b-word.”
This being a violence-free zone, I shall not repeat their neanderthal neolisms here.
Even without elections, Master Issa seems to have faced similar problems in 19th Century Japan:
sing, cuckoo!
you’re just about curing
my headache
our ceremony
just a lot of noise
to the cuckoo
t-shirt clearance —
not buying the Boston curse
even for a dollah
[Oct. 30, 2004]