If you don’t know what this is about, scroll down to my 3:20 post from yesterday.

Some results are in. Sandra offers this:

Who’re the guys you’d rather pick
When you need realpolitik?
SHAFT
Ya damn right!
Who are the men that would go to war
For their brother man?
SHAFT
Can you dig it?
Who’s that cat that will then bail out
When the peeps won’t come about?
SHAFT!
Right on!
They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
I’m talking ’bout Shaft.
THEN WE CAN DIG IT!
They’re a complicated crew
But none understand them but National Review
SHAFT!

This reader very much wants to remain anonymous:

Who’s the realpolitik
That irks all the New York Times chicks?
SHAFT!
Ya damn right!
Who decides when
We all flip off the UN?
SHAFT!
Can you dig it?
Who’s the crew who pulls the big guns out
When there’s danger all about?
SHAFT!
Right on!
They say the damage is collateral
’Cos we’re acting unilateral
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
SHAFT!

And…

“Shaft Conservatives”
[Note: The line “(Conservatives)” should be said in
exactly the same voice as the word “chair” in the Late
Night with David Letterman’s rendition of Michael
Jackson’s “Billy Jean”.]
Shaft (Conservatives)
Who’re the old-school tricky dicks
that’ll waste dictators in the Mideast sticks?
(Shaft!) (Conservatives)
You’re darn right
Who is the clan
that would break the necks of Taliban?
(Shaft!) (Conservatives)
Can you lick realpolitik, baby?
Who’re the cats that won’t hang about
when others put on their Wilsonian pouts
(Shaft!) (Conservatives)
Right wing.
You see these Shaft C cats are bad mother–
(Shut your mouth)
But I was going to say “mother–respecting, old
school, butt-kicking, ‘you’re on your own you
disorganized undemocratic Dark Ages bastards’ toughs.”
(Then we can dig it)
It’s complicated this realpolitik
and no one understands it, not even Jeanne Kirkpatrick
(John Derbyshire Shaft)
Earl Fando
Co-Editor, Contributor, and Parodic Lyricist
The Dictionary of Unfortunate Ideas