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Tony Powers is a writer/actor/musician. His full bio may be seen by clicking on the picture, and then clicking on either of the 2 boxes below it.
barkinginthedark has written 571 posts for Barking In The Dark

Putting Christ Back in Christmas the “Family Values” Way

The Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, and The Christian Coalition have just issued a report condemning certain Christmas carols as “un-Christ-like, un-Christian, unfriendly to family values, and aiding in the advancement and glorification of certain un-American lifestyles.” Pointing out that the carol “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” as the most egregious offender, the … Continue reading

This Koch’s For You (Are Fucked!) Or: No Payroll Tax Break or Unemployment Checks For You Unless There’s Oil For Them

The Koch brothers greedy and vile Own the Tea Party gang rank and file The pipeline’s their goal And to get it they’d roll Every family – man, woman, and child   So they shoved Keystone oil in the bill And if they don’t get it they’ll kill Our tax break, our checks We can … Continue reading

The Ballad of Our Payroll Tax Cut or: GOP: “Give us the Oil and You Can Have Your Lousy Thousand”

They clicked their heels and all saluted, all red tied and all blue suited All heil Grover Norquist – you’re our Fuhrer Payroll tax cut? Thousand bucks? For who? For all these working schmucks? Don’t they know that suffering makes them purer?   We’ll only do it for the pipeline; the measly thousand is their … Continue reading

The Ballad of The Religious Right or: My God is Waaaay Better Than Yours

Now the Religious Right have reached dizzying heights Of hypocrisy pure plain and simple St. Mary herself Seeing their pelf Would blush red with shame ‘neath her wimple   First we’ve Ralph Reed whose mean hate filled creed Decrees gays will not make it to heaven I guess none of us heard When they passed … Continue reading

The Ballad of the Republican Candidates or: Would Anybody Like Some Mixed Nuts?

And now – The Republican field Adding all of their IQ’s would yield A remarkable sum Giving them headaches from How to keep this much dumbness concealed   There’s “kids could be janitors” Newt Rick: “whut’s that third thing? Oops – shoot” Cain: was “what affairs?” Michelle: well…who cares? And Mitt who looks good in … Continue reading

The Ballad of Cell Cam Sousveillance or: Fuck You Fox News – Here’s What REALLY happened

Thank goodness we now have sousveilling We, the people, now use it for nailing The dim troglodytes Who trample our rights By spraying, and beating, and jailing   Thus, in factual real-time depictions We see all the Fox ‘“news” contradictions Now we all know our cell Is the real show and tell Exposing Fox News’ … Continue reading