Goodnight Bush

Goodnight BushFew among us, I’d wager, haven’t read Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd’s classic bedtime story Goodnight Moon. It was our son’s constant goodnight story for the first year or so of his life, and is now burned into my brain along with the Thomas the Tank Engine theme song, the movie Cars, and large chunks of Dr. Seuss.

Few among us, too, are fans of the Bush administration. I am therefore overjoyed to bring you news of Goodnight Bush, by Erich Origen and Gan Golan, a brilliant parody with lines like “A grand old party to war in a rush/And a quiet Dick Cheney whispering hush.” (Thanks to Pauline Park of Visible Vote ’08.)

NPR covered it this week, and the New York Times had a piece a few weeks back that I missed.

Not a kiddie story, for sure, but perhaps a great gift for moms and moms-to-be on your list.

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  2. PRESIDENTIAL THEME PARK: THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIUM

    Forget the Presidential Library!

    First, why make a library to honor a guy who does not even read books? Second, libraries are an attempt to preserve facts and history – and we know that the Bush administration cannot be trusted with either. So, in order to further the effort to bring historical clarity to the last 8 years, and support the ongoing demand for accountability that must accompany it, we are offering the public an alternative to the official Presidential Library planned for Dallas, Texas.

    We present to you the George W. Bush presidential Librarium!

    Reading about Bush’s remarkable achievements might not exactly be family fare, so we’ve done away with all those pesky little books, and have replaced them with themed attractions that bring administrations remarkable legacy to life. So, leave your foreclosed home behind, pack the family into your most fuel-inefficient vehicle, and come on down to the place “where wings take dream”!

    History starts here. The only question: Are you with us or against us?

    http://www.goodnightbush.com/librarium/

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