Trial Balloon: May 29, 2009 Archive

Rubber and Glue

Posted at 5:28 AM on May 29, 2009 by Dale Connelly (17 Comments)

It has been a short week, but we've had more than enough time to identify a Supreme Court nominee and to get the usual name calling started - an agonizing confirmation process that will drag through the summer.

Speaking of that, I meant to post the list of summer songs you gave me on Tuesday, but I got distracted while reading the news and inexplicably started down the twisted path of trying to encapsulate the developing political game around Judge Sotomayor's nomination in three nice, compact limericks.

Why? I think it has something to do with the time honored playground comeback to a hurled insult - "I'm rubber, you're glue. It bounces off me and sticks to you!" There's something about silly sing-song poetry that hopes to nullify nastiness.

Anyway, I ran out of time and only managed to come up with two and four-fifths limericks.

A jurist named Sotomayor
Re-ignited the cultural war
Those incendiary quotes
Could scare off a few votes
That's what context is taken out for.

When talk radio says you're a "bigot".
Next a faucet will call you a spigot.
When the pundits find fault
They just raid their own vault
Like when Donald Trump claims that you "wig it".

To become a court justice Supremish
Any nominee must not be squeamish
Every person so named
Will be quickly defamed
And ... ?

Give me a last line, or a brand new limerick, or your favorite story about playground taunting.

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