2016-03-19 18:53
All the children in grade school loved recess a lot,But the Gingrich, who lived in Virginia, did not."All that laughing and shouting just fills me with dread --Those kids should be scrubbing… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
We have been waiting for someone to describe President Obama's recent decision to start pumping up his market optimism as using the "bullish pulpit."No one did, yet. Help yourselves and enj… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The shattered remnants of the once mighty nightquill publishing empire emitted their annual gasp of impeccable taste in the Style Invitational's annual poetry contest in memory of people who… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
We are nation-building = I argue Bin Laden won itBlackwater Security = sack Beltway recruitBuild your own at: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ Read More
2007-08-25 06:30
Once again, the nightquill staff contributed to the Washington Post's Style Invitational under our usual alias. The contest was to summarize a book or movie in a few lines of verse. Only on… Read More
2007-02-05 10:12
If anyone at anytime is going to annihilate us for hubris and decadence, it will surely come close on the heels of the two CONSECUTIVE ads I heard on the radio today:One for frozen, ready-ma… Read More
2007-01-31 07:33
At the prompting of the Style Invitational, we once again sing of those who passed away in the last year:Urned an honorable mention:The Celtics' Auerbach is dead;The foes of Green no more se… Read More
2006-10-22 08:19
There will be a new political poem someday soon. In the meantime, please enjoy these advertisements:1) For Kuleto's restaurant in San Francisco: a poster placed in the lobby of the American… Read More
2006-09-26 07:57
Not only is this week's Style Invitational a veritable feast of news poems, but one of nightquill's occasional freelancers, David Smith, whom we use when we are desperate, actually won the t… Read More
2006-08-04 05:55
We can't let the Connecticut senatorial primary go without a poem:It's rare that we Jews To the Senate send forth a proxy,But still, must we snoozeWhile you grossly abuseAll our dearly-held… Read More
2006-06-16 08:02
Most of the nightquill senior poets, associate poets, and trainees have melted away like expensive chocolate on the plastic front seat of a '72 Chrysler Newport after hearing the news that p… Read More
2006-05-20 08:36
You would have thought that a political-poetry empire led by a science geek would have come before now to the fibonacci-poem craze (1,1,2,3,5,8 syllable lines), but, first, we are rather clu… Read More
2006-05-11 06:50
We love these apalling but petty stories....they're the ones that call the nightquill middle echelons out of their drunken stupors and encourage them to borrow the keyboards back temporarily… Read More
2006-04-21 07:25
An analysis of President Hu's visit to Washington in the Post today refers to Hu's call for US/Chinese "partnership" on international affairs this way:A key test of that partnership will be… Read More
2006-04-08 18:35
Three Weird Sisters join the whole nightquill staff in celebrating the departure of that Mayberry Macbeth, Tom DeLay.By the tingling of my toes,Something wicked that way goes....Not all are… Read More
2006-03-17 23:01
A confidential source on Capitol Hill reports:Apparently the Chief of the British Air Staff is called Sir Jock Stirrup.Enunciate that ve-e-ery carefully, please.Moreover, at a congressional… Read More
2006-02-22 07:22
No humor today. Many recent news stories on the death penalty, and the possible cruelty of the use of lethal injection, which may be true but is irrelevant (see below). The death penalty nee… Read More
2006-02-16 07:39
Sure, the news is bad.But, cheer up. It could be verse. Should have been our motto, but it belongs to the great Gene Weingarten, as he does news poems professional-style in this week's Post Read More
2006-02-15 08:37
Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), while at Oxford, wrote a poem entitled "The Deserted Parks", protesting the conversion of Oxford parkland to cricket fields. His social criticism expanded into what… Read More
2006-02-13 08:24
It can't be pleasantTo have Dick Cheney treat you like a pheasant.One Middle East dictatorHas seen the drill: "shoot first, explain it later."Scalia had some luck.Picture him in that robe … Read More
2006-02-03 09:58
Today, no bitterness -- only joy! The New York Times' analysis of President Bush's energy policy (don't get me started) included a quote from energy conservation and efficiency expert Odd-E… Read More
2006-01-30 07:13
Once again, nightquill has crossed swords with the massed Losers of the Washington Post's Style Invitational.This week's contest was a challenge to taste as well as humor: writing poems on p… Read More
2006-01-11 08:01
Have you ever gone to the NSA website? It's the slowest I've ever seen -- they must be reading your entire hard drive while their screen downloads. And until the logo finally manages to arri… Read More
2005-12-31 09:40
Ahmed Chalabi's the new oil minister.Does anyone else find this mildly sinister? Read More
2005-12-26 09:31
See, this is more like it. When we start to realize that the world and our government are just too unrelievedly depressing to be funny about, we find a case of someone being corrupt in such… Read More
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