John Denver's "Annie's Song" kept on running through my mind while contemplating the ridiculous census "controversy." That first line in particular begs to be parodied.
1st verse:
You fill up my senses like a night in the forest
Like the mountains in springtime, like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert, like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses come fill me again.
Becomes:
You fill out my census it's the right of the poorest
It's the 'crats in their glory, like Barack Hussein
The long form preserve it, like a weepy true Liberal
You fill out my census come fill it again
Don't ask me how Obama and the Democrats got in there; but being a bunch of creepy statists, I'm sure they'd be in favor of it. Ditto with Denver, who doubtless would have been an Obamabot had he lived.
I briefly considered doing the rest of the song but then came to my census (ha!) and had another beer instead.
For those of you who were too young to have heard the song or who were (blessedly) unconscious during the 70's, here's JD live in concert: