Southpaw Jones

Geraldine Ferraro, where’ve you been?
Making cracks about Obama’s skin?
It is not his race
That helps him to place
It’s more that he’s youthful and thin

Bush foresees a Democrat crater
As they move to a delegate equator
“My party will win it!
Both the House and the Senate
And we’ll greet McCain as liberator.”

Spitzer, turns out, is no saint
Seeing call girls with zero restraint!
But post-Craig and Foley
Gee whiz, holy moly
This scandal feels common and quaint

Some artists become more than fads.
Madonna and Mellencamp are grads
In the Rock Hall of Fame
So is it not a shame
That I still hear their music in ads?

as reported in The New York Times

March 13, 1908
OUR MAIL MAY BE IN JAPAN.
British Officials Say Registered Packages Possibly Went Astray.
The British postal officials are not so confident to-day, as they professed to be yesterday, that the fifteen registered mail packages which disappeared last January were put aboard the White Star liner Celtic and forwarded to New York.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Did you see the Loch Ness Monster today? Doesn’t it look nice in its fancy new clothes? Everyone is gonna want to come see…

Highlight here for answer: [dressy Nessie]


Great Clocks of Christendom

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
James A. Garfield

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
with Matt the Electrician
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
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Zilker Park (Spooky) Kite Festival 2008
Pics by Maggie Wilhite