Lyrics:

I remember you in Hemlock Road in nineteen fifty-six.
You're a faggy little leather boy with a smaller piece of stick.
You're a lashing, smashing hunk of man;
Your sweat shines sweet and strong.
Your organs working perfectly, but there's a part that's not screwed on.

Weren't you at the Coke convention back on nineteen sixty-five
You're the misbred, grey executive I've seen heavily advertised.
You're the great, gray man whose daughter licks policemen's buttons clean.
You're the man who squats behind the man who works the soft machine.

Come now, gentleman, your love is all I crave.
You'll still be in the circus when I'm laughing, laughing on my grave.

When the old men do the fighting and the young men all look on.
And the young girls eat their mothers meat from tubes of plasticon.
Be wary of these my gentle friends of all the skins you breed.
They have a tasty habit - they eat the hands that bleed.

So remember who you say you are and keep your noses clean.
Boys will be boys and play with toys so be strong with your beast.
Oh Rosie dear, doncha think it's queer, so stop me if you please.
The baby is dead, my lady said, "You gentlemen, why you all work for me?"

Via Dan Walter MyDD:

Kweisi Mfume leads Congressman Ben Cardin 31 to 25 percent according to a new Washington Post poll....Joe Trippi, who has been working for Kweisi Mfume for more than a year, says the poll confirms that Mfume's efforts to take his message to the people through his numerous visits to grass roots activists throughout the state is paying off, and that voters are hungry for more than the play-it-safe message that party establishment candidates can offer. "When people hear Kweisi Mfume talk about 'speaking truth to power' they get energized and feel empowered again. It certainly resonates much more than the business-as-usual talk coming from beltway insiders. People like what Kweisi Mfume has to say because it's a refreshing change from the status quo."

I'm a big Kweisi Mfume fan, having had the opportunity to speak with him on issues several times when he chaired the Congressional Black Caucus in the '90's. I also recommend his book: No Free Ride.

Former congressman Mfume tells of his journey from the ghettos of Baltimore to the halls of Congress to leadership of this country's oldest and largest civil rights organization, the NAACP.

Sy Hersh has a new article in the New Yorker on U.S. military policy in Iran

Publius at Legal Fiction shows up Mark Levin on the Hamdan decision. [Via Kevin Drum.]