Results for: October 2022


Source: NPR

Trick, or Treat?

Is this about affirmative action?

Or what it takes to gain any traction

In prepping white kids to win life’s big game

By dealing with people who aren’t the same?

What if it’s staged just to help the wealthy?

That surely would not be very healthy.


Source: The Financial Times

F#@K Yeah!

A little levity from stuffy Brits

Who have the best curse words, hard landing hits.

But they tend to use them behind closed doors

Since in public they’re used only by boors.

With things so bad not just alcoholics

Were unleashing shocking words like “bollocks!”


Source: The Financial Times

Or, its saving grace?

It causes some problems, on the one hand

And I still would rather that it were banned.

But Dave Chappelle hit the nail on the head

When he was flamed on Twitter and then said

“I don’t give a f#@k ‘cuz it’s not a real place.”

And most people don’t say things to your face.


Source: The Financial Times

Too late for that

Whatever protections have been in place

Twitter still managed to be in your face.

With Elon now having taken the helm

We’ll see what happens with this crazy realm.

Hard to let anyone say what they will

With all those advertising spots to fill.


Source: The Guardian

Must be a lesson here

You go a few decades without a bath

And after your first, yikes! The aftermath…

It’s about as bad as bad ever gets

It turns out that washing posed lethal threats.

So all dogs and boys, you know who you are

Use this lesson, but don’t take it too far!


Source: Fortune Magazine

No wonder bosses freak

Stories like this don’t do much to help out

All those employees who started to shout

There’s no need for the big office return

Why go spend time in an old-fashioned urn?

“We are just as productive and switched on!”

But working from home is sort of a con.


Source: The Guardian

Let’s try this again

So it turns out Rishi has had some gaffes

And some of them are worth a few good laughs.

Like when he said he’s addicted to coke –

Just the soda, he’s not that kind of bloke.

But I hope he’s wise with smarts from the street,

Despite the Pradas he’s got on his feet…


Source: The Block

NFT… WTF?

If it happens you’re anything like me
You’re likely asking “What’s an NFT?”
Non-fungible tokens were once the Bomb
Treated with reverence, a financial psalm.
I thought they dealt with just digital stuff
But seems houses too are part of the fluff.


Source: Axios

Fabricated Divide?

Three quarters of us never use Twitter

And just one percent watch Fox News’s litter.

Thirty percent are on the left and the right

Forty percent seek independent light.

Our differences aren’t really all that large

And we need the centrists to come take charge.


Source: The Wall Street Journal

That was great

Given yesterday’s quite hot breaking news

I read this headline with some nuanced views!

We learned that remote work had jacked the rate

Of pregnancies in lockdown, pretty great!

But whoa, what’s this “faking it” all about…?

That wasn’t a genuine joyful shout?!