Today’s Three Blind Mice

Sculpture by James Christensen

A 2003 anti-war site from the UK called “The Blairing Bush” pokes fun at Prime Minister Tony Blair and others for their alliance with (blind following of) President George Bush. http://www.blairingbush.fsworld.co.uk/blindbush.html

A March 14, 2004 column by Janadas Devan in The Sunday Times was entitled “When Three Blind Men Don’t See Eye to Eye.” The column begins: THE unprecedented crisis of legitimacy in the United Nations Security Council today is due to three men - French President Jacques Chirac, UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix and United States President George W. Bush. 'Three blind mice, three blind mice; see how they run, see how they run.' http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/columnist/0,1886,145-176898-,00.html

A poem entitled “Three Blind Mice” is posted on the IndiaNest.com site.http://www.boloji.com/blunt/00528.htm

Just to demonstrate that political uses of this rhyme are not limited to one side of the political aisle, see the following site. Here President Clinton’s enactment of the “Clarity, Equalization and Anti-Discrimination Act of 1999” is celebrated with a re-writing of “Three Blind Mice” to read “A triumvirate of murine rodents totally devoid of ophthalmic acuity was observed in a state of rapid locomotion in pursuit of an agriculturalist's uxorial adjunct. The aforesaid adjunct then performed a triple caudectomy utilizing an acutely honed bladed instrument generally used for subdivision of edible tissue.” http://www.re-quest.net/reading/rhymes/three-blind-mice/