It’s that nostalgic time when everyone feels the need to provide a personal retrospective on the year that was: Sometimes positive (best …), often negative (worst…), sometimes neutral (the year in ….). Sometimes general (everything that happened), sometimes specific (best movies, worst natural disasters).
One of the great benefits of these retrospectives is that they remind us of events that seem so very long ago now, given the rapid speed of modern life. “Oh, that mass shooting, I’d completely forgotten about it.”
In the vein of fostering recollection, I’m offering a piece about the children’s crusade that happened early in 2025 and has long since dropped off the front pages, but whose after-shocks are still very much with us: The Scourge of the DOGE.
To make it a bit more palatable, I’ve written a bouncy hymn for the Musketeers, set to the music of that real oldie, At the Hop.
At the DOGE!
Bah-bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-bah-bah
Bah-bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-bah-bah, at the DOGE.
Well, you can block it you can foul it You can even disembowel it, at the DOGE. When our wheels starts spinnin' There’s no stopping us from winning, at the DOGE It’s the occupation that’s freaking the nation, at the DOGE.
Let’s go to the DOGE
Let’s go to the DOGE (oh baby)
Let’s go to the DOGE (oh baby)
Let’s go to the DOGE
Come on, let’s go to the DOGE.
Well, you can wing as you wreck it
Send long-timers to the exit, at the DOGE.
Where our leader is the coolest
And the outcome is the cruelest, at the DOGE.
All the nerdy dicks gonna get their kicks at the DOGE.
Let's go!
Let's go to the DOGE
Let's go to the DOGE (oh baby)
Let's go to the DOGE (oh baby)
Let's go to the DOGE
Come on, let's go to the DOGE.
Well, you can access private data
and save it all for later at the DOGE,
You can make sure you control it
Then deny you ever stole it, at the DOGE.
It’s the Vance fixation destroying the nation, at the DOGE.
Let's go to the DOGE (oh baby)
Let's go to the DOGE (Not maybe)
Let's go to the DOGE (Not lazy)
Let's go to the DOGE (Like rabies)
Come on, let's go to the DOGE.
