"Nowadays, you can't turn on the TV without some talking head telling you about the economy. Yet, in a world overrun by 'analysts,' only one man has the guts, the brains, and, quite frankly, the poetry to put it all in perspective.That man is Michael Silverstein... Silverstein is a true intellectual." — Gersh Kuntzman, The New York Post

"Few people have found much to laugh about in the stock market this year. Michael Silverstein is the exception. The Bard of the Bourse can find humor in losing money, globalization and stock options." — USA Today

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The religious right isn’t happy with President Bush’s choice for a new Supreme Court judge...

Supreme Court Angst

When our votes got you elected,
There were things that we expected,
With the high court’s new decisions,
We were promised big revisions.

For appointments we made clear,
On the bench what we hold dear,
Judges who with God are chummy,
Not another lib’ral dummy.

Justices who would deposit,
All them gays back in the closet,
And no medical cavorting,
Would excuse future aborting.

Public schools would have class prayer
Darwin’s lies would disappear
Courts would meet all our desires,
Then you give us...
Har’yet Miers?

You're The Man, we can not order,
But for you we carried water,
Now we’re saying, we will flee ya,
‘Less you clone Ant’nin Scalia.

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