Mythbusters Burst the Boundaries

Mythbusters Burst the Boundaries

The Yankees’ lies against their conquered foes,
the overkill that stomps a reputation
and to obscene lengths quite intently goes
in search of absolutist obfuscation–
these did not cease with Forrest, Jackson, Lee.
Oh, no! Old Abe is targeted already.
With former lies new liars won’t agree.
The whole past totters, frightfully unsteady.
And, if the Stars and Stripes are crucified
as was the Southern Cross, I won’t be weeping.
How do you like it, guides without a guide?
You who cry out for far too long were sleeping.
Today you reap what shrieking falsehood sows.
You merit every syllable, God knows.

–Tom Riley

Encirclement Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Encirclement Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Hohol twerps booted out on their asses
peddle claims to the gullible masses.
No one kicked their patoot:
they’ve encircled Bakhmut!
Such effrontery truly surpasses.

–Tom Riley

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

“Russia’s losing a thousand a day!”
Western analysts breezily say.
“So we’re told by Ukraine.
That’s our constant refrain.
Ghost of Kyiv is assisting. Hurray!”

–Tom Riley

(Actual Russian losses less than a tenth of Western estimates.)

Thanks for the Tanks!

Thanks for the Tanks!

Why are we sending tanks now to Ukraine?
I thought those guys already turned the tide
Back in September. Why today complain
That Ukies are enduring homicide
On battlefields where they can hardly hide
From Holy Mother Russia’s sure advance?
Are we perhaps admitting that we lied
In former months? Do flames engulf our pants?
Trannies and neo-cons both love this dance
Of narratives that can’t bear scrutiny
For more than twenty seconds. Take a chance
On global love! They say to you and me.
It may be risky, but it’s really nice!
And only distant Slavs will pay the price!

–Tom Riley

Guest Priest

Guest Priest

The guest priest at my parish seems to buy
The NATO propaganda absolutely.
Oh, he’s repeating every single lie,
The guest priest at my parish. Seems to buy
The whole cartoon. The truth need not apply.
I do resent his crap – but not acutely.
The guest priest at my parish seems to buy
The NATO propaganda absolutely.

–Tom Riley

False Indeed

False Indeed

It may be false, indeed, what I declare—
But nonetheless I can’t be called a liar.
Expecting facts from me is far from fair.
It may be false indeed, what I declare
With unrestrained conviction. On the air
It may ring loud and never quite expire.
It may be false indeed, what I declare.
But, nonetheless, I can’t be called a liar.

–Tom Riley

Adding Detail

Adding Detail

Once the narrative, lad, is in place,
Then we let them leak out into space,
All the details designed
For the unconvinced mind.
Let our lies put a smile on that face!

–Tom Riley

Adding Detail

Adding Detail

Once the narrative, lad, is in place,
Then we let them leak out into space,
All the details designed
For the unconvinced mind.
Let our lies put a smile on that face!

–Tom Riley

Non sine honore in terris aliis

Non sine honore in terris aliis

The Yankee literati couldn’t bear
A Southern gentleman like Mr. Poe.
Judgmental in their absolutist lair,
They scoffed at Southern genius. Even so
It always is with lamps that truly glow
In the thick dark that apes normality.
Into obscurity must such lights go!
To such truth, how can puffed-up frauds agree?
The messengers of mediocrity
Pushed hard. It seemed that excellence was dead.
The lies of Griswold spread alarmingly.
Delighted Yankees on that poor corpse fed—
But did not long enjoy their ghoulish feast.
Who raised Poe from defeat? Les symbolistes!

–Tom Riley

(The beautiful soul of Edgar Allan Poe passed from our earthly plane on this date in 1842.)

Treason Trial

Treason Trial

In Mark Shea’s view, most everyone’s a traitor.
(He has no principles he could betray.)
His keyboard cry is, “Death to the invader!”
In Mark Shea’s view, most everyone’s a traitor!
Being a chronic gay porn masturbator,
He feels his sissy neurons slip away.
In Mark Shea’s view, most everyone’s a traitor.
(He has no principles he could betray.)

–Tom Riley

(Line 5: Not a literal allegation, but arguably true in a figurative sense. The satirist here of course has no more evidence that Mark Shea is a chronic gay porn masturbator than Shea himself has that Tulsi Gabbard is a traitor. And, if evidence of Shea’s degraded habits actually surfaced, we’d all try to avoid looking at it.)