I would like to thank every pomo litcrit idiot out there…

…who helped exile lyric poetry in our culture to the genres of science fiction and fantasy. If you’re wondering why kid’s television programming typically has horrible song lyrics that don’t scan, it’s because of that. Although I would have expected The Jim Henson Company to have escaped the rot.

Moe Lane

Pity, really: Sid the Science Kid seems otherwise unobjectionable.