{"id":4539,"date":"2011-02-16T01:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T05:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2013-01-15T18:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:14:22","slug":"clarence-thomas-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/02\/16\/clarence-thomas-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Clarence Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is under scrutiny<\/a> these days for conflicts of interest related to the Koch Brothers, the Federalist Society<\/em>, and the Citizens United<\/em> case. <\/p>\n

But today’s limerick and haiku will focus, instead, on the fact that Thomas hasn’t asked a single appellate hearing question in five years.<\/a> <\/p>\n

For the record, I did quite a bit of litigation work during my lawyering years. And believe me, his failure to speak throughout five years of hearings is peculiar and reflects very poorly on his judicial skills.<\/p>\n

That brings me to my Clarence Thomas limerick:<\/p>\n

Limerick Ode To Clarence Thomas
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

I’m mindful that Thomas can talk,
\nBut at queries for hearings he’ll balk.
\nHe’s been silent for years–
\nFive in all. I’m all ears.
\nIf he asks one sharp question, I’ll gawk.<\/p>\n

And here’s my Clarence Thomas haiku:<\/p>\n

The Sup Court’s Thomas–
\nToo ill-informed for queries?
\nOr just too lazy?<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> It’s been nearly two years since I wrote this limerick and haiku. So in fairness, I must announce that Justice Thomas has finally broken his silence.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now mind you, he didn’t ask a sharp question … or, indeed, any question: He merely made a mildly amusing four-word (or so) remark about lawyers who went to Yale.<\/p>\n

Still … it’s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is under scrutiny these days for conflicts of interest related to the Koch Brothers, the Federalist Society, and the Citizens United case. But today’s limerick and haiku will focus, instead, on the fact that Thomas hasn’t asked a single appellate hearing question in five years. For the record, I did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[168,71,6,7,3,13],"tags":[1091,1511,1514,1513,2895,1296,373,1089],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8960,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions\/8960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}