Cold Comfort

Wondrous how the EPA’s opinions
Change as quickly as administrations.
Global warming? Bush considered asses
Anyone who thought that greenhouse gases
Caused the polar ice caps’ liquefying
Notwithstanding polar bears were dying,
Icebergs from their glacial mass were calving.
Doublya’s wit was ascertained by halving.

Guardians of Massacre

Enough already, talk of guarding health,
As though the Congress really gave a damn,
When looking after Big Tobacco’s wealth
Instead, it's making grants-in-aid a sham.

Reefer Madness

Hey let’s just wait a minute here.
For sure we need to make it clear:
From Mexico no jive? Say, huh?
It’s okay, though, from Canada,
From drugstores in Saskatchewan
Illicit meds, and so whereon:
Permitting Baja stuff on line
For shipping stateside should be fine!

Papal Bull

In Africa the Pope declares
That sorcery is nothing more
Than witchcraft, as though unawares
That exorcists have much rapport
With native doctors, who daresay
Their treatment evil drives away.

We Want Our Money Back

Insurance giant, A.I.G.
Rewards its worst egregiously,
With more than half a million bucks
From you and me, and how that sucks.

The Sandal on the Other Foot

Chinese Premier Wen Jaibao
Looks at us and wonders if,
Treasuries we sold them, now
Pass the test, should Beijing sniff.

Bernie's Got Company

Though Bernie Madoff is the worst,
He’s not the only one who’s cursed
For setting up a Ponzi scheme
That’s made our meltdown so extreme.

When mortgage brokers blithely loaned
To sub-prime buyers, they condoned
The risk that they would not get paid.
They sold the debt that banks ok’d.

Friends and Foes Alike

Friends are fine but keep foes closer,
Said an ancient Chinese general.
President Obama’s poser?
How to change the downward spiral.
In a world where GIs perish,
Dollars drain and others view us
Not as partners once to cherish,
Rather as a global doofus.

Life Under the New Administration

Professed pro-lifers like to spout
That stem-cell research is about
Immoral slaying of a soul
Albeit someone far from whole.