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UPDATE: I remarked earlier in comments that Lehrer was living in Australia. My mistake for missing the line in the Sunday Herald article that notes that Lehrer lives in Santa Cruz, California. Thanks MJS, for pointing that out. (see comment thread back HERE. Ok, back to our regularly scheduled programming. - the farmer.

From a comment by farmer, who dug up an interview with sensitive singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer:

'I'm not tempted to write a song about George W.Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them."
(via Sidney Morning Herald)

And since it's spring time still, I think I'll quote from one of my favorite Tom Lehrer songs:

Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do, don't you? 'Course you do.
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,
And makes every Sunday a treat for me.

All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Every Sunday you'll see
My sweetheart and me,
As we poison the pigeons in the park.

When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
The sun's shining bright,
Everything seems all right,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
(Tom Lehrer, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park")

Ah, the 1960s... So innocent!