Greetings and Happy Holidays! Beloved Puff, the Magic Dragon has been dragged into the political spotlight, courtesy of a highly questionable parody song targeting President-elect Obama's race. The parody was distributed along with other materials by a candidate for the post of Republican National Committee chairman. Mean-spirited and bad taste at the very least. As if poor Puff hasn't had enough problems since that ingrate Jackie Paper deserted him ...

Especially notable is that Puff himself has responded to this chain of events, via Peter Yarrow -- co-author of the original 1963 folk song.

It's an interesting read.

All the best for 2009!

--Lauren--