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

Censure madness

Such extensive use of the censure

Has put us on quite the adventure.

This one however should make your jaw drop!

I mean, for real, when will this nonsense stop?

The GOP has lost its mind on this…

Trump is dragging it down to the abyss.


Source: The New York Times

Be open

Perhaps one day we will get to a place

Where people realize that the human race –

And, in fact, the world we all live in,

This beautiful place we’ve been given –

Is loaded with nuance that creates worth…

Yes, hunters too want to save planet Earth.


Source: The New York Times

Pigs? In SF?

Rampaging pigs in Silicon Valley?

There must have just been an IPO rally!

Ok, well yes, they’re in the East Bay

Not really the Valley, but not far away.

And no, these beasts aren’t capitalist pigs

They’re actual hogs, not venture gigs.


Source: The New York Times

Things that go boom

The numbers have grown so insanely high

That I just can’t fathom it, if I try.

The problem it seems is that we never

Do anything even close to clever

To make anyone feel the consequence

Of borrowing money beyond all sense.


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.