CURRENT CONTENTS
a. Norm's (in)experience
b. Attorney General
c. Secretary of Defense
d. Secretary of Health and Human Services
e. FBI Director
f. Director of National Intelligence
g. Director of OMB (Office of Management and Budget)
h. Director of D.O.G.E.? Trade Sheriff?
i. Secretary of Education
Authors' Note: Norm's take on his employability at some past point would have been thought to smack of self-aggrandizement or worse, but appears in our time to be normalized.
apologies: a major faux-pas by the editors -- This verse originally assigned to the collection "defining opinion" seems to have wormed its way into this group as well.
Authors' Note: The particular nominee we had in mind is discussed on Wikipedia HERE.
The Feed-At-The-Trough Law is a 'rule' of natural law, by which those routinely rewarded have boundless will to please those who feed them; in the political arena, it would normally account for the approval of almost any nominee, but in this case, even that line was crossed.
The detailed story of a flawed appointee for leadership of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), i.e. the Attorney General, is presented at OEDILF here.
Sure! Despite the current emphasis on 'efficiency', let's review yet again whether the long-disproven possibility that vaccines cause autism and other major diseases.
"Government Gangsters" is a 2023 book by Kash Patel about the perceived deep state in US politics; the same author produced a children's picture book entitled "The Plot Against the King" (the protagonist is King Donald).
Authors' Note: The particular nominee we had in mind is discussed HERE.
Bill Barr (Republican) and Merrick Garland (Democrat) were Attorneys General in the 2017 and 2021 administrations respectively.
Authors' Note: The particular nominee we had in mind is discussed HERE.
Authors' Note: The particular nominee we had in mind is discussed HERE; he had no role in government until the ad hoc formation of the Department of Government Efficiency.
Embargos so grab me is found in most lists of classic palindromes. A newer entry, Elon, olé!, is suggested, but unfortunately could not be worked into the above verse.
Authors' Note: The particular nominee we had in mind is discussed HERE.
A recent New York Times article was subtitled, "Linda McMahon, whose résumé mainly rests on running World Wrestling Entertainment, has faced questions for years over whether she is suitable for important education posts."
The president, who employed her in his first term as director of the Small Business Administration, nominated her in 2024 as Secretary of Education, but has repeatedly indicated that he would like to eventually eliminate the Department.
The president, who employed her in his first term as director of the Small Business Administration, nominated her in 2024 as Secretary of Education, but has repeatedly indicated that he would like to eventually eliminate the Department.
GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS:
To resume the sequence of daily titillations on our related blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", click HERE. Once you arrive, you can select your time frame of interest from the calendar-based listings at the bottom of the page, and check the daily offerings for any month from the start of 2020 until December 2024.
As of December 2024, there are 1800 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. Most of their key elements are also presented here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections, such as this one. The "Daily" format also has the advantage of including some song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.
Readers will likely have read the notice that as of December 2024, "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" will be converted to archive-mode, i.e. some polishing of presented posts will go on in the background, but there will generally be no brand-new material presented.
Regrettably, for the same reason, further regular posting of new material on the current topic-based blog will also be drawing to a close at the end of this calendar year, with sporadic exceptions. There will be some polishing and rearranging going on in the background (we have quite a few 'postholes' to fill in). Hence, it may still be worth your while to return and explore, to satisfy your yearning for funky humor and erudition. Thanks for your indulgence!
As time goes on, our creative impulses will be directed primarily at the song-lyric blog "Silly Songs and Satire". It already offers 120 songs with parody-lyrics, and accompanying chord suggestions for stringed instruments such as ukulele, all in readily sing-alongable slide format. (The 'bare' lyrics for most of these have already been posted on"Daily Illustrated Nonsense").
See y'all there!
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