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

Porous

The funny thing about borders and France

Is that they really have hardly a chance.

The Maginot Line was a pre-war hit

Until the Nazis couldn’t give a shit…

And poured into France going through its neighbor

Flipping the bird to all that French labor.


Source: CNBC

Patently lame

Putting a waiver on patent protection

Is an idea that needs correction.

Yes, taxpayers funded development cost

But how would it help if these rights are tossed?

The issue is not one of paying fees,

It’s keeping standards to fight the disease.


Source: The New York Times

Then again…

I’ve liked the movement towards return to work,

Folks in an office now seem like a perk.

So this new trend, well, it can give you pause…

And yet again highlight one of the flaws

Of being alone like a wall flower

Maybe work from home if you don’t shower.


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Cruel and Unusual

So covid decimated lots of schools

Some already lacking notable jewels.

Classes went online and pretty much suck

And the students were left shit outta luck.

Add insult to injury, just more doom…

No more Snow Days for you! Class is on Zoom.


Source: The New York Post

This is how you do it

New Jersey has always taken some heat

For the sort of folks you’re likely to meet,

Like all of the stars of the Jersey Shore

With their spiked hair, fake tans and chiseled core.

But man oh man when it comes to the law

This public policy leaves me in awe.


Source: The New York Times

Maybe a match!

Adult communities are created

So adult needs can be satiated.

They lose their focus and their whereabouts

So have all their needs met, or thereabouts.

Given what her experience has been

Seems to me she’ll probably fit right in!


Source: The New York Post

That’s easy

If ever you wonder whether you should

Add “fun zoom events” for everyone’s good

It honestly could mean only one thing…

You have not yet felt Zoom’s hyper-use sting.

The answer to this question is quite plain,

No frickin’ way unless you want more pain!


Source: The New York Times

Day late, dollar short

It’s one thing to get it wrong and say damn…

Mistakes happen, it’s not part of a scam.

You say that you’re sorry and you move on.

It’s another thing when you’re a moron.

They sold a big lie for no other cause

Than to enrich themselves and upend laws.


Source: The Washington Post

Will anything…?

You’d think that a massive event like this

Would make us all take stock and reminisce.

But history informs us that’s not the case

Past pandemics didn’t much change the place.

Wars tend to make us reflect a bit more,

But human nature is fixed at the core.


Source: The Financial Times

They’re Not Taking It!

A pricey stunt for this billionaire…

And what’s the point if you don’t have that hair?!

His slogan was “Make Australia Great!”

Which kind of was also ripped off, eh mate?

A loser and a cheat whose bill came due

They’ll do better Down Under without this crew.