Taki's Top Drawer


New blog, Taki's Top Drawer.

Taki’s Top Drawer, edited by Taki Theodoracopulos

Taki sez:
Why start this new online magazine? According to the just-turned-70 writer—who’s fit as a fiddle, and active in competitive martial arts—“I want to shake up the stodgy world of so-called ‘conservative’ opinion. For the past ten years at least, the conservative movement has been dominated by a bunch of pudgy, pasty-faced kids in bow-ties and blue blazers who spent their youths playing Risk in gothic dormitories, while sipping port and smoking their father’s stolen cigars."

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(To the tune of "Thanks for the Memories.")

Thanks to the neocons
Their websites full of dreck
The magazines they wrecked
The foundations they took over
In service to a sect.
How easy it was…


And thanks to the neocons
Our girls are off at war
On a hateful foreign shore
Our cluster bombs trashed Lebanon
But strengthened Hezbollah
How heady it was…


But when the voters demote us
Send us skulking home in a daze
Like whipped dogs we lick our disgrace
And learn to get used to the taste.


But thanks to the neocons
For every war a shill
We’re driven from the Hill
But their mission was accomplished
Since our troops are dying still
A cakewalk it was…


Thanks for the neocons
Those late-night shows on Fox
We watched while drinking shots
Sure Cheney lied and soldiers died
But ain’t Ann Coulter hot?
A kegger, it was…


Thanks to the neocons
Pelosi runs the House
The Court’s still Blackmun’s spouse
Today the way things look
I need a book by Leo Strauss
How subtle he was…


Gone are those brunches on K Street
With salmon, and champagne, and Perle
Now we’re chewing corndogs on Main Street
We wish that Frum
Would also come…


I once heard a prophecy
That the people can’t be fooled
And ridden like a mule
But for five years we deluded them
And it felt really cool.
What chutzpah it took….


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Taki's Top Drawer: Thanks to the Neocons

Posted: Sun - February 11, 2007 at 06:48 PM            

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