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

What did you expect?

It sneaks up on you quickly, that’s for sure

When you’ve tolerated lies as a cure

And then you realize one terrible day

That there simply isn’t any possible way

To reverse the damage that’s been done

And you’re in the crosshairs of that loaded gun.


Source: The Financial Times

Global Mute Button

What a bold move by a large tech giant!

Donnie has been entirely reliant

On Twitter to distribute his unfiltered lies

A place where his voice has lived and now dies.

Some say it’s a move coming too late

But better now than spreading more hate.


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Penny short, day late

These Cabinet members who have resigned

Are cynical and pathetic, they were not blind.

But there is one resignation that would matter…

The one that would come from the Mad Hatter.

Here the Wall Street Journal is calling for that!

Fat chance it will happen, not from this rat.


Source: The New York Post

America the (not so) beautiful

It was an unusual day in American history…

But doesn’t strike me as much of a mystery.

Rome is burning as our top leadership rots,

Fueled by self-interest and conspiracy plots.

Such that now a guy at the Capitol’s door

Looks like he just looted a Dollar Store.


Source: The Guardian

What’s wrong with this picture?

This photo seems to capture it all!

The whitest dude possible has the gall

To wear a shirt saying “Blacks for Trump”

While Donnie unloads another dump.

And wide-eyed women take it all in,

Do they have any clue what a lie it’s been?


Source: Axios

Whatever it takes

Dominion intends to go on the offensive

And make threats to democracy very expensive.

The reckless claims which these people nourish

Cannot be allowed to take root and flourish.

So if people don’t seem to care what they say

Then by all means a lawsuit should make them pay.


Source: The Washington Post

Wow

Truly what is most clear in his feat

Is that Donnie doesn’t miss a beat.

He’s spent decades now perfecting his trade

Strong-arming people to drink the Kool Aid.

Never mind if it’s legal when it’s his biz

And it sure shows what a spoiled brat he is.


Source: The New York Post

We’re probably good

If any aliens swung by in 2017

And took a good luck at the DC scene

I’d say that we have very little to fret

For surely they have a process to vet

Those new worlds that have some worth

From the chaos they found on planet Earth.

 


Source: The Guardian

We’re not making this up

Some of these are too good to be true

And of all his inanities are but a few.

As his time in office comes to an end

There is the desire to sort of pretend

It was all a dream, a nightmare of sorts…

America would never allow these worts.


Source: The New York Times

RIP Mary Ann

For guys who are of a certain generation

It became something of a small fixation –

“Mary Ann or Ginger?” was the question

That revealed so much, if by suggestion.

It helped our understanding increase…

Thank you Dawn, may you rest in peace.