Goodnight Bush

Goodnight BushFew among us, I’d wager, haven’t read Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd’s classic bedtime story Goodnight Moon. It was our son’s constant goodnight story for the first year or so of his life, and is now burned into my brain along with the Thomas the Tank Engine theme song, the movie Cars, and large chunks of Dr. Seuss.

Few among us, too, are fans of the Bush administration. I am therefore overjoyed to bring you news of Goodnight Bush, by Erich Origen and Gan Golan, a brilliant parody with lines like “A grand old party to war in a rush/And a quiet Dick Cheney whispering hush.” (Thanks to Pauline Park of Visible Vote ’08.)

NPR covered it this week, and the New York Times had a piece a few weeks back that I missed.

Not a kiddie story, for sure, but perhaps a great gift for moms and moms-to-be on your list.