Tuesday, November 23, 2004

A Blogger's Lot Is Sure A Happy One; Or, Farewell, Dan !

This is my farewell to Dan Rather. What can I say--I love Gilbert and Sullivan!
Sung to the tune of "A Policeman's Lot" from The Pirates of Penzance:

When an anchor's not engaged in his employment
Or furthering his ideologic spin;
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
Is as great as any man in mortal sin.
Our feelings we with difficulty smother,
When there are posting duties to be done.
Taking one consideration with another,
A blogger's lot is sure a happy one!

When there's jounalism duties to be done, to be done
A blogger's lot is sure a happy one!

When CBS's anchor's not a-anchoring;
When reporters are not making up their source;
They always claim to have a hankering
For gossip that is definitely course.
When the editor is finished with his blather;
He loves to go and have himself some fun.
Especially if he is one Dan Rather--
A blogger's lot is sure a happy one!

When there's journalism duties to be done, to be done--
A blogger's lot is sure a happy one!

When Dan Rather shows no sign of where the Truth went,
He nobly bids all anchoring farewell.
When his management and peers have all gone silent--
Except to say that Dan the man's so swell.
When Dan was finally finished with the font size
Of a Kinko's memorandum he'd begun;
That was when the blogsphere took away his big prize--
A blogger's lot is sure a happy one!

When there's journalism duties to be done, to be done--
A blogger's lot is sure a happy one!

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