Kensington is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city of my birth. Though I myself was not born in Kensington, I thought it rather appropriate to use its unfortunately higher-than-mean-average incidences of crime, especially violent urban crime, to send up Jimmy Webb's anti-war selection. Rizzo was Francis Lazarro Rizzo Sr., one of Philadelphia's most controversial mayors (Philadelphia's mayor-council government is of the strong-mayor type) and, before that, one of its most bitterly criticized police commissioners--he hated the U.S. Supreme Court's civil-libertarian decisions and did his most to maintain his cop-spawned repressionism against them.