A tribute

As I noted before, Slate has had some of the best political stuff during the elections. Here's Slate's tribute to Rumsfeld, and if you don't want to click on the link, here are some of my favorite parts:

(The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld... taken directly from press conference transcripts)

Glass Box
You know, it's the old glass box at the—
At the gas station,
Where you're using those little things
Trying to pick up the prize,
And you can't find it. It's—

And it's all these arms are going down in there,
And so you keep dropping it
And picking it up again and moving it, But—
Some of you are probably too young to remember those—
Those glass boxes,
But—

But they used to have them
At all the gas stations
When I was a kid.
—Dec. 6, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing

A Confession
Once in a while,
I'm standing here, doing something.
And I think,
"What in the world am I doing here?"
It's a big surprise.
—May 16, 2001, interview with the New York Times