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 Guardian

Okay, and so…?

I’m no expert on domestic abuse

But this smacks to me of being a ruse.

The crime allegedly committed here

Was defrauding investors, let’s be clear.

She lied about what her product could do!

And now just continues to be a shrew…


Source: The New York Times

Corrective Perspective

At These Times Need Rhymes things are pretty light

But when I err, I want to make it right.

I noted the Afghan army’s collapse

And blamed the soldiers for a courage lapse.

But that neglected all the bad forces

Which left them stranded with no resources…


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Start by taking one

When it comes to making vacation last

And you’re wanting to have a total blast

One of the things Americans must do

Is kind of unique but important too

And that is in fact to TAKE A VACATION!

Like folks do in every other nation…


Source: Outside Magazine

Uh, what?!

Girl, how can you even ask that question?

But I think I have a good suggestion:

Get the f@#k out of life with this loser!

He’s out for himself, clearly a user.

Truly no guy would behave in this kind

Unless he had other thoughts on his mind…


Source: KCRA

‘Rental Involvement

Imagine where we could be as a nation

If the same focus and concentration

That parents are giving to the mask fight

Were focused instead on learning to write?

Or if they threw punches because they’re mad

That their children can’t read, subtract or add…


Source: The New York Post

Walking Dread

Coming as a surprise to nobody

Gen Z is cementing something shoddy.

With all the screens and social media

And never knowing an encyclopedia

This generation has been led astray

And the whole world is going to pay.


Source: The Huffington Post

Bulls#!t…

Let’s see if we can understand the thought…

The vaccine is dangerous and is fraught

With all sorts of evils that may kill you

And government microchips that’ll fill you

With radiation and trackers that aren’t benign

But taking cow medicine? That’s fine, just fine.


Source: Axios

Naked Nonsense

No matter what your opinion of porn

This is a path the company will mourn.

Sexual content is all that it’s got…

Blank screens just really aren’t all that hot.

I mean, so I am told, what would I know?!

It’s just that’s what I’ve heard, so…


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Another flip of the bird

“Aid shmaid,” says the Taliban leadership…

“We’ll connect to the High Times readership!

Who needs your cash and rules that restrict us?”

Because they’ve got the goods that addict us.

Hard to imagine how it could be worse.

That part of the world is a Western curse.


Source: NPR

Leif Ericson, er, daughter

So here’s a fun fact to add to their myth

Which alters their reputation, herewith…

The Vikings may have been quite progressive,

Or at least unafraid of being expressive!

Their leaders revered strength and great splendor,

And some of them may have been transgender.