![]() That said, how can anyone resist watching how DeSantis claws his way to the top of the wailing wall over the remains of Humpty Trumpty below who is celebrating Christmas this year by singing “Oh, Come All ‘Ye’ Hateful” to dine on antisemitic and racist porridge? Onward … ![]() I will attempt to be more upbeat in this year’s rewording of this classic poem. It has been my intention for the past 10 years to inject a little light humor into the increasingly dark times we find ourselves living in. ![]() In any case, my anniversary special always manages to elicit (provoke?) heavy duty responses from both sides of the Red/Blue spectrum. And a housekeeper found it and liked it so much that she sent it to the newspaper - without Moore’s knowledge. The story goes that Moore had written the poem for his children. It remained unattributed for 13 years until the professor/poet Clement Clarke Moore stepped forward to claim the work. ![]() ![]() There was no author’s name attached to it. Nicholas” (aka “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”), a poem that first appeared in the Troy (New York) Sentinel on Dec. Today’s column marks the tenth anniversary on which I have “reinterpreted” the classic “A Visit from St. ![]()
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