<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Courtesy of the November 16, 2015 edition of <i>The Nation </i>magazine (at newsstands now).</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------------------</span></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>"Sure Thing" </b>by Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet</div><div><br></div><div>"June</div><div>It’s all but decreed: </div><div>Because of his breed,</div><div>Jeb Bush is the steed </div><div>Republicans need.</div><div>This Bush guaranteed</div><div>A fat-cat stampede.</div><div>Most pundits agreed </div><div>That soon we would read, </div><div>'Jeb’s rivals concede.'</div><div><br></div><div>October</div><div>Whatever he’d plead, </div><div>Few voters would heed. </div><div>His poll numbers skied </div><div>Downhill with a speed </div><div>He could not impede. </div><div>Stuff happens, indeed."</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------</div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></body></html>