Category Archives: Greed



Libertarian Limericks

Enhance economic morale
By chanting Von Mises’ chorale:
Let marketplace greed
Determine our needs Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Politics, Several Short Poems

Appetites & Accessories

Face it! Two essential appetites drive
Us all. Just two stark fundamental needs:
Food and sex. Back at dawn, we had to strive
All day—hunting, gathering—just to feed. Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Inspiration

Libertarians: The Doggerel Ballad

Beware the libertarians
(A most unseemly lot).
They’re certainly not agrarians—
They wish to sail on yachts. Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Politics, Taxes

Preserving Plutocracy: Part II—How Much Is Enough?

As I write, seven hundred ninety-three
Bloated billionaires dominate our Earth,
While enterprise, notoriously free,
Gives hundred-million dollar fortunes birth— Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Politics

Preserving Plutocracy: Part I—Weeds

An obese neighbor with striped politics,
Distressed by socialist taxes spoke out:
“Take the world’s wealth—divide it equally
Among everyone on earth—in five years Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Neighbors, Politics

Ecce Homo

Desire to acquire wealth?
Easy!
Watch, as others
(Sentenced to sweat and pain) Continue reading →

Posted in Greed, Lust, Religion