These days, when I read about the ever more bizarre and destructive actions of the so-called leaders of the United States, I think of Tom Lehrer.<\/p>\n
When Lehrer quit his long-time career as a satirist, he explained why. “Political satire,” he said, “became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”<\/p>\n
Kissinger was a paragon of virtue compared with what we’re dealing with today. I wonder what Lehrer would have made of these clowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These days, when I read about the ever more bizarre and destructive actions of the so-called leaders of the United States, I think of Tom Lehrer. When Lehrer quit his long-time career as a satirist, he explained why. “Political satire,” he said, “became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” Kissinger was … Continue reading “Political satire”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28314,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28313\/revisions\/28314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}