error503 -- La vita nuova questions, polls, & silly contests

-- What do we think about women's basketball?

Can't really get into, but I hope it does well so that my daughter can be a pro and make us some money. I do like women's soccer.

-- What do we think about women's boxing?

Legal, not inherently evil, somewhat inappropriate. Against it unless they can make it safer.

-- Which poets don't get their due? Which are overrated?

Doesn't get his due? Wole Soyinka.

-- Which US presidents don't get their due? Which are overrated?

Reagan was overrated.

-- Which movies haven't gotten their due? Which are overrated?

Small Soldiers never got its due.

-- Why does Pat Buchanan get excoriated as a neo-fascist homophobe (i.e., lit., "fearer of same") while Eminem gets nominated for Grammy after Grammy, & receives the plaudits of those who froth at the mouth about Pat? And in this connection, you might provide a list of persons whom we can & can't criticize in this day & age.

The pendulum is swinging the other way, so while in the past homo,xeno and all phobias were not publically shunned, the pendulum must swing because that's what pendulums do. Who can and can't get criticized is relative, it all depends on audience. One group that is presently suceptible to unsympathetic criticism are muslims.

-- Who's cooler, Venus or Serena?

Serena

-- Which celebrities have, in your opinion, the most kissable feet?

I'm not going there! You never know what's under the socks.

And, finally, for the poets out there:

-- Give me the most ridiculous rhymed couplet of pentameter, tetrameter, or the strangest haiku ever composed in the history of literature! Write it yourself, if you like. In fact, that would be good.

If I was born a chunky monk
I would live on a boat
To dream, to sleep, to eat, to pray
While floating on a moat

You said make something up!