The Pacific regrets it will not be posting much satire for the next few days due to the reality show some refer to as The White House. We simply cannot compete with such […]
Rumple Oxbridge: “Liberal Verse is No Crime”
By Rumple Oxbridge, liberal lyricist A journalist of the conservative type has branded my satirical prayer “a crime against the idea of verse.” Well, well. I plead guilty in this literary sense: my […]
Rumple Oxbridge: “House GOP Prayer to Cut Health Care”
By Rumple Oxbridge, liberal rhymer Dear Lord on this National Day of Prayer help us give freedom from health care. Too long the wealthy have been bothered keeping their sisters and their brothers alive and […]
The Pacific is Sickened by the AHCA
By John Frederick Kaufman In fact, The Pacific Editorial Committee, consisting solely of myself, is far more than “mildly nauseous” when it considers exactly what 217 adults, overwhelmingly white and male, just […]
Poem: “Death of a Journalist”
By John Frederick Kaufman Sick of screens that blind with light, I’ll sing myself to sleep and let all facts arrive to you undeniably as night. I watch the snow fall silently […]
T.S. Swanky: “Darwin was Right About Health Care” [Satire]
By T.S. Swanky, The Pacific’s imaginary, confused conservative When liberals say they value scientific theories like evolution and “global warming,” what they mean is that they like liberal science, the kind that makes […]
Rumple Oxbridge: “Trump’s ‘major, major’ getting tough with the Koreas”
By Rumple Oxbridge, radical rhymer The president says diplomacy is “very difficult” so we may have a “major, major conflict” [war] (lots of majors, lots of gore) with Koreans of the North. […]
Riverboat Sam: “Night Surfing Not a Brilliant Idea”
“We hear all our lives about the ‘gentle, stormless Pacific,’ and about the ‘smooth and delightful route to the Sandwich Islands,’ and about the ‘steady blowing trades’ that never vary, never change, […]
T.S. Swanky: “War is Making TRUMP (and US) Great!” [Satire]
By T.S. Swanky, an imaginary, confused conservative. Any resemblance to any actual person or conservative columnist, living or dead, is an astounding coincidence. I confess that I was one of the many conservative “Never […]
In the Aftermath of Dropping the “MOAB” Bomb on Afghanistan
By John Frederick Kaufman So the United States suddenly felt the need to give our MOAB (“mother of all bombs”)–more officially known as GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast–a try on Thursday in the […]
Rumple Oxbridge: “The Mother of All Bombs”
By Rumple Oxbridge (The Pacific’s unreal radical rhymer) How many mothers can it kill, this “mother of all bombs?” It’s only dropped on terrorists we’re certain have no wombs. What is the mother […]
A Response to Rick Perlstein’s “I Thought I Understood the American Right . . .”
Writing recently in The New York Times Magazine, prominent historian Rick Perlstein attempts to figure out how exactly American conservatism could produce, as if out of nowhere, a candidate and a president of […]
Jim Hightower: “Wall Street Sodbusters”
Wall Street Sodbusters [Reposted with acknowledgement and thanks from Otherwords.org Please see original post page for copyright information.] Big-money speculators are buying up farms, charging tenants to farm it, and boxing young, real […]
Rumple Oxbridge: “On Pornography”
By Rumple Oxbridge, The Pacific’s radical rhymer, sometimes referred to as “rhymer-in-residence.” I was going to say a little goes a long way but if I may be so bold why should any […]
Syria: War Still Not the Answer
The ongoing war in Syria is a vast catastrophe; what began as a peaceable resistance movement against the Assad regime, one among many in the “Arab Spring” of 2011, has devolved into a brutal […]
Let’s Stop Saying “Nuclear Option”
Must politicians and journalists succumb to the language of war? Or the flip side: Must we put words like “peace” on weapons of war? I’m thinking of the U.S. nuclear missiles called “peacekeepers.” The […]
The “Human Rights Poetry” of Yevgeny Yevtushenko Very Relevant Today
By John Frederick Kaufman Speaking of his poetry, here’s what Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who died yesterday in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 84, told the Associated Press in an interview […]
April: Poetry & Mud
A poet in a bad mood can ruin a reputation, as T.S. Eliot did for April when he called it “the cruellest month”, adding an extra letter l for emphasis. I prefer […]
Rumple Oxbridge: “The Death of Old King Coal”
By Rumple Oxbridge , imaginary rhymer-in-residence at The Pacific Old King Coal was a polluted old soul And a sick old soul was he. He called for his pick, and he called for […]
It’s a Really Good Time for an Anti-War Movement
First published February 17, 2017 in The Capital Times If there is any consolation to be found in the election of President Trump, it is the opportunity to make anti-war protest great […]
A Poem: “Fists and Flags”
By John Frederick Kaufman Fists and Flags “America first!” the president cried and raised his fist to punch the sky while someone punched a fascist in the head: the fist is […]
Why it’s Realistic to Ban Nuclear Weapons and Why U.S. Should Lead
Talks are underway this week at the United Nations in New York on a possible global treaty to officially ban all nuclear weapons. More than 120 nations are participating, but not surprisingly […]
