Here's to Hecht

DB takes its name from a poem by Anthony Hecht, who died exactly a week before this blog went online.

In his honor, a double dactyl:

Macaca, Mucaca
Senator George Allen
told us he's Jewish, yet
still, he eats ham.

Nooses and deer heads hurt
electability.
Candidates with brains don't
schmooze with the Klan.

UPDATE: While we're at it:

Ickity, Sickity
Congressman Mark Foley
asked of his page, would you
measure your schlong?

Despite this disgusting
cybersoliciting
Hastert and Reynolds could
see nothing wrong.