Third-party Limericks

Out-doing each other, they arm
the Oppressor, increasing the harm.
They kiss Zionist ass…
Neither one gets a pass;
And it’s too late to sound an alarm.

If for either my ballot were cast,
Then my guilt and regret could outlast
The slow death of Beirut,
And bear bitter bad fruit,
Till the Zionist shadow has passed.

What, in truth, does my vote stand to gain
Or prevent Palestinian pain . . .
Such a delicate line.
Should I vote for Jill Stein—
Or just sit this one out and abstain?

Dark, Wanton and Witchy

The Battle Between Halloween and Reformation Day

Launched on October 31, 1517, the Protestant Reformation broke not just with the Catholic Church but with all that’s dark and demonic, wanton and witchy. […] By a congruence of the calendar, it was on the final day of that month nearly a century and a half before — Halloween of 1517 — when Martin Luther made the protest that marked the symbolic beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Among Lutherans and the Reformed churches, mainline Protestants and evangelicals, that day marks the separation from the papacy, the supposed return to scripture and faith, the rejection of superstition and idolatry.

 

Ed Simon@hyperallergic.com