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September 28, 2005

Tom Delay

Tom Delay.

Posted by Jim Henley @ 11:12 pm, Filed under: Main

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23 Responses to “Tom Delay”

Comment by Thomas Nephew —
September 29, 2005 @ 3:05 am

Cryptic.
Comment by Tom Scudder —
September 29, 2005 @ 3:18 am

Terse.
Comment by Gene Callahan —
September 29, 2005 @ 5:53 am

Tom Delay
Comment by Patrick Nielsen Hayden —
September 29, 2005 @ 6:41 am

Maybe it’s a game, like Mornington Crescent.
Comment by Matt Weiner —
September 29, 2005 @ 7:02 am

Says it all, really.
Comment by Kip Manley —
September 29, 2005 @ 8:24 am

No, Tom Delay.
Comment by DT —
September 29, 2005 @ 8:26 am

I wish I could really care, but I think DeLay is merely an expendable cog. I view it like taking down some particular drug kingpin. It’s nice and all, but it won’t unltimately have much effect. As long as the demand is there and the money is there to be made, there will always be someone willing to step in and be the middleman.
As long as there are moneyed interests looking to buy government favors, there will always be politicans willing to sell them. And I’m long past having any hope that the voters will pay enough attention to know or care what politicians do when they aren’t making election commercials.
I remember a quote from author Max Frisch which addressed this point. It was something like: Are there any politicians or leaders whose death would fill you with hope? Or do you find none of them indispensible?
Delay’s (hopeful) demise doesn’t really fill me with hope, because he’s not indispensible.
Comment by Species 8 —
September 29, 2005 @ 8:31 am

Tom Delay
thru the anagram
equals
Lame Tody
Comment by Bill —
September 29, 2005 @ 9:02 am

I don’t think anagrams count if they’re misspelled. It just seems like cheating to me.
Comment by Leonard —
September 29, 2005 @ 9:21 am

The money, like rain, like the river
flowing down running down heading down
delayed briefly here or there
barriers swept aside
finds its way.
.
Supply meets demand. Always will.
Comment by Species 8 —
September 29, 2005 @ 9:53 am

Well we are talking about Tom Delay. In this case the anagram seems to be apropos.
Comment by Thomas Nephew —
September 29, 2005 @ 11:27 am

Obligatory.
Amazing: 2 words, 12 comments in less than a day.
Just think if you’d included his middle name.
Comment by Mary —
September 29, 2005 @ 12:01 pm

The fifteen letter middle name?
Comment by Mary —
September 29, 2005 @ 12:02 pm

Whoops — thirteen letters.
Comment by Mr.Obscura —
September 29, 2005 @ 2:14 pm

14 comments, and still no haiku. Or limericks. The poet’s art is truly dead.
Comment by Jim Henley —
September 29, 2005 @ 3:03 pm

There once was a Thomas Delay
Who said, “Everybody must pay!”
Though he wriggled his thumb
Into many a plum
His goose was cooked by the DA.
Comment by Madeline —
September 29, 2005 @ 3:19 pm

Fall of a withered
Leaf from a tree that harbors
Many such, untouched
Comment by Diana —
September 29, 2005 @ 8:17 pm

cute
Comment by Tom Scudder —
September 30, 2005 @ 5:05 am

Lay down your head Tom Dee-lay
Lay down your head and cry
Lay down your head Tom Dee-lay
Poor boy, he’s bound to die.
Comment by kiche —
September 30, 2005 @ 8:49 am

(laughs)
Comment by Charles Kuffner —
September 30, 2005 @ 1:45 pm

“Just think if you’d included his middle name.”
For the record, it’s “Dale”. Make of that what you will.
Comment by Gene Callahan —
October 1, 2005 @ 7:38 am

Tom Delay
Comment by Gary Farber —
October 1, 2005 @ 5:48 pm

“Just think if you’d included his middle name.”
Just think if there were a prominent American politician with this name, rather than one whose name is constantly misspelled this way.
It’s funny, because you’d think people could easily remember such an easy spelling. Mr. Ghandi might disagree, though. And definitely Ms. Leguin.