Results for: January 2022


Source: The Washington Post

DIY Publishing

What do you when you’ve written a book

But no publisher will give it a look?

Maybe you go to where lots of books live

Like say a library, and then you give

It a handwritten version for the shelf

Yes, that is publishing – do it yourself!


Source: The Washington Post

Right, but…

I only hope the headline’s misleading

And that with a more thorough reading

We learn that in fact there’s a lot here

Because it’s important that we are clear

Affirmative action alone should not be

The primary reason he got entry.


Source: The Economist

Room for shrooms

A dose of mushrooms can be very nice

Even though it was scheduled as a vice.

They help to treat resistant depression

And can lead the mind to new expression.

No drug is harmless, so exercise care,

But making them legal would only be fair.


Source: The Guardian

Moonshot

His stock is not the only thing on its way

It seems one of his rockets has gone astray

Both have been headed for the moon

But right now it’s just a little too soon

To know if they will have a safe landing

Or crash and ruin Elon’s good standing…


Source: The New York Times

Affirmative Response

What a difficult issue to discuss

With slavery and seating on the bus

And all the historic sins committed

By a white ruling class that permitted

Crimes to occur for its own advantage…

Fixing the fallout is hard to manage.


Source: USA Today

Can’t Buy a Break

Unemployment is the lowest in fifty years,

Wage growth has increased across all careers.

GDP expanded at its fastest rate

Since the mid-80s which had a speedy gate.

Yet people believe the nation is stalled…

Since the price of gas has left us appalled.


Source: Vanity Fair

Here we go, again…

So now it’s delivered by RFK…
Historical parallels to the day
When the Nazis killed all the Jews they could
Exactly like the vaccinators would (!)
If left unchecked to pursue their big plan…
Please stop with this nonsense, it’s crazy man.


Source: The Wall Street Journal

I mean, wow!

Possibly the best playoffs of all time!

But this overtime rule is just a crime…

No one wanted it to end in this way.

It’s really unfair and it’s not okay.

A coin toss should never decide the fate

Of two teams that were playing simply great.


Source: The New York Post

Hat’s Off

He’s been in the League for 22 years

And has often caused me to come to tears.

But the guy puts on a really great show

And this little detail I did not know…

After all that time he’d never before

Been flagged for bad conduct, now THAT’s a score.


Source: The Economist

Is this a good thing?

It appears that now it’s easy to split,

To shrug and to say it wasn’t a fit.

I wonder if that is progress or not.

How many would give it another shot?

When the cost of divorce is very high

Maybe fewer would choose to say buh-bye…