  urlLink Obliviously On He Sails The Bush Administration in Rhyme By Calvin Trillin A small sample, if you please... Why yes, I will do that. The war against Iraq: The context The terrorism war began to sag. The perpetrator we were meant to bag Remains at large, and wartime fervor fades.
Then Bush and all his Hawkish White House aids Drop sanctions as the way to tame Iraq And say, "Without delay, we must attack. " If that war sags, there's still a backup plan. It's war without delay against Iran. And when the zest for that war, too, has faded? That's easy: North Korea gets invaded. But then it's hard to think of what to do. Destroy Bahrain? Bomb France? Invade Peru? -September 23, 2002 The Loyal Opposition The senate Democrats sat mum, Like doves afraid to coo So history will soon record This as their war too.
-April 7, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------- urlLink www.subvertise.org -------------------------------------------------------- There is no such thing, at this date in the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinion to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. You know it and I know it.
And what folly is this - toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.” John Swinton - New York Times - New York Press Club 
