Doin’ The Vatican Ra-a-ag July 28, 2025 RIP TOM LEHRER I never met Tom Lehrer, who graduated from Harvard at 18 and died Saturday at 97, but his songs have delighted me for 60 years and are available to anyone free, as his obit notes. I can’t sing The Elements (all 102 of them, back then), but I can sure sing The Vatican Rag. As for Wernher Von Braun, it doesn’t get more biting than this. If you’ve never heard of him, read this quick bio before listening to the song. RIP ZEUS I met Zeus when he was just weeks old. He barely came up to the top of my sneaker. What a touching love story. YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK We’re spending tens of millions so the president can golf. Far more distressing: the tens of billions we’re spending to rid the country of needed labor, shatter families that have been working hard and paying taxes for years, denying asylum claims, and becoming cruel. Even sadistic: Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest. WHOM COULD THEY POSSIBLY BE TALKING ABOUT?