It’s been another season
Of ads that make you think,
That all that politicians do
Is flush money down the sink.
I hear them on the TV
The radio and live.
The other guys a no good bum
And we are all deprived.
It’s wonderful the things they’ll do
Just give them all, your vote.
So they can join the gravy train
And shove more down your throat.
I guess I’d rather listen
To the birds out in my yard.
Then to hear another promise.
From another beltway bard.
And when it’s time to cast my vote
I’ve never been confused.
I consider rock and hardspot
But either way I lose.
—Dick E. Bird
Of ads that make you think,
That all that politicians do
Is flush money down the sink.
I hear them on the TV
The radio and live.
The other guys a no good bum
And we are all deprived.
It’s wonderful the things they’ll do
Just give them all, your vote.
So they can join the gravy train
And shove more down your throat.
I guess I’d rather listen
To the birds out in my yard.
Then to hear another promise.
From another beltway bard.
And when it’s time to cast my vote
I’ve never been confused.
I consider rock and hardspot
But either way I lose.
—Dick E. Bird
When Adlai Stevenson was running against Dwight Eisenhower, someone rushed up after a speech to inform him he would have "the support of all thinking Americans."
Stevenson replied, "Not enough. I’m going to need a majority."
Stevenson replied, "Not enough. I’m going to need a majority."
In a interview, Newt Gingrich called public television, "a little sandbox for the rich." I would like to ask him exactly what he thinks Congress is!
President Clinton, summing up his first 100 days in office: "I’m not doing so bad. At this point in his administration, William Henry Harrison had been dead for 68 days."
Just What Is It
That Bird Watchers Do?
Many people just smile to themselves when they see a bird-watcher scoping out a tree, bush or field. But at the same time they are wondering what makes a birder tick. What is the lure to chase birds? Bird-watchers don’t take them home and hang carcasses on the wall, they don’t fill their freezers with a winter’s worth of young fryers. Most of them don’t even take pictures.
What’s the deal?
Why would these people drag themselves out of bed at dark-thirty in the morning, go out in weather that would turn back a mailman, and slosh through wet vegetation to spot a bird you could easily see on a National Geographic tape in the comfort of your home with a bowl of popcorn?
I don’t get it.
What’s the big mystery? Birds are one of nature’s most beautiful varieties of color, sound and movement. People who enjoy watching birds receive the same heart-lifting feeling that can be aroused by music and art. Birds set it in motion, and it comes, filtered through nature’s settings garnished with wind, fragrance, color, and the endless abstract collage that has no beginning and no end in a circle of life that for many is defined by this diverse collection of feathered creatures.
Bird-watching is really no different from fishing or hunting except that you can do it in more places for a whole lot less money, and it is easier to lie about what you saw because you don’t have to come back with any evidence!
Just What Is It
That Bird Watchers Do?
Many people just smile to themselves when they see a bird-watcher scoping out a tree, bush or field. But at the same time they are wondering what makes a birder tick. What is the lure to chase birds? Bird-watchers don’t take them home and hang carcasses on the wall, they don’t fill their freezers with a winter’s worth of young fryers. Most of them don’t even take pictures.
What’s the deal?
Why would these people drag themselves out of bed at dark-thirty in the morning, go out in weather that would turn back a mailman, and slosh through wet vegetation to spot a bird you could easily see on a National Geographic tape in the comfort of your home with a bowl of popcorn?
I don’t get it.
What’s the big mystery? Birds are one of nature’s most beautiful varieties of color, sound and movement. People who enjoy watching birds receive the same heart-lifting feeling that can be aroused by music and art. Birds set it in motion, and it comes, filtered through nature’s settings garnished with wind, fragrance, color, and the endless abstract collage that has no beginning and no end in a circle of life that for many is defined by this diverse collection of feathered creatures.
Bird-watching is really no different from fishing or hunting except that you can do it in more places for a whole lot less money, and it is easier to lie about what you saw because you don’t have to come back with any evidence!
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