Why

If you don’t bother to take the time,
To express your thoughts in rhyme,
The chances are awfully good,
You’ve not thought as much as you should.
Rhymes are fun and set the stage right,
Like lovers undressing before a fight…


Source: The New York Times

Bow, wow!

It sure seems to me like a total ruse

Developed by folks who want to abuse

The love that bonds us to our pets

And willingness to spend with no regrets…

But what if it works, and… your pet’s a chump?!

An election denier who supports Trump?


Source: The Washington Post

Mr. Gorbachev, rest in peace

His legacy is mixed at home and away

But he sure had impact in his day.

Reagan challenged him to “tear down this wall,”

And then we couldn’t believe it at all

When he did just that and quite a bit more…

Pretty much ending the entire Cold War.


Source: The New York Times

Maybe bring a vax too?

The threat we fear is that by some mistake

An alien virus gets its big break

And soars off the planet, since Mars is small,

Expanding its reach to a galactic mall.

That would be a bad day for us on Earth…

I’d think twice about giving bugs a berth.


Source: The New York Post

Better late than never

Well this is surely too long in the making!

Bubba sure could have avoided some aching

Had he just met with Ruth before the day

He and Monica decided to stray.

Or perhaps it should have been years before

Since they say there were at least four more…


Source: The New York Times

Wait, the stick… anything else?

Great, so now we learn our very best friends

May also suffer from memory bends.

Getting confused and walking into walls

And thinking the rugs are urinal stalls.

Ugh, what torture we’ll endure when our hound

No longer cares when we come around.


Source: CNN

Not so bright

I can’t say that I’m a very big fan
Of this latest federal giveaway plan.
Debts are debts and they should not be absolved.
Nor is the actual problem resolved…
Moral hazard will now rule higher ed
Allowing them to charge MORE instead.


Source: The New York Times

But why?

Too much of anything is never good

But it doesn’t always mean that you should

Throw it all away and change your style

Especially when it makes you smile.

These islands are fun and have a great rep!

Changing their brand is a useless schlep.


Source: Axios

Weird, but still

For all the talk to follow the science

It sometimes seems there’s little compliance

From all the ideas and the theories

And it just adds to reasonable queries.

To me it falls into the bucket of life

So much is unknown why bother with strife?


Source: The New York Times

Manipulative Mutts?

They’re so darned cute that it’s hard to believe
Those tears aren’t real whenever they perceive
That you’re coming home and gonna see them!
Sometimes they even hack up some phlegm….
It has to be real! That love is not fake…
And oh so what if it is, give them a break.


Source: Substack

WeCrazy

Adam Neumann, a man on a mission!
I’d love to hear tales he tells about fishin’…
The guy is just so loaded full of bull
It’s painful to watch what new stunt he’ll pull.
Yet more shocking to see support he’ll get
From all the VCs, who seem to forget.