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 Washington Post

I’m sorry, what?!

Two things strike me as pretty crazy.

First, regulators aren’t just being lazy,

How in the world could they ever stop

A child from eating this magnetic slop?

And what the heck is with these tots –

Downing magnets like they were shots?


Source: The Huffington Post

The First Noel

Growing up in New York I soon understood

The value of diversity in our big neighborhood.

One thing I noticed about some of the mothers

Was how they praised their sons over others.

Oh yes they formed a very loud cheer squad…

But only one Jewish mother had a son who was God.


Source: God's Breath Publications

Oh what a night

Reflecting on that first Christmas Eve

It was tough on Joseph, I have to believe.

They traveled all day and into the night

And found nowhere to sleep or get a bite.

With a pregnant wife, well, it is as it is…

And the fact remains, the kid wasn’t his.


Source: The Wall Street Journal

Carpe Deus

So this article highlights attending mass

Which, let’s face it, can be a pain in the… neck.

But what strikes me as a point that is lost

Is that actually it’s a good relative cost.

Rather than hearing a parent’s crazy idea

You can reflect on life and sing Ave Maria!


Source: The Atlantic

Or not

I’ve a lot of issues with online culture,

Which often seems to be like a vulture

Watching society wither and decay

Before swooping in to collect its pay.

But it didn’t make us tired of the rich

It’s their own behavior that’s the bitch.


Source: Newsweek

Just in time

Today we celebrate winter’s start

A day that’s always close to my heart.

We now reverse course and have more light

On a solar path both predictable and bright.

It also helps, since the news lacks cheer,

That at least it’s the shortest day of the year…


Source: The Washington Post

A Miracle

Just in time for the Christmas season

The religious right has come to reason.

Its support for him has been a mystery

Since he really does not have a history

Of pushing policies for the good of man

Instead of grabbing what he can…


Source: Axios

True Colors

Everyone in life will break some bond

And character is revealed in how you respond.

John Dingell served longer than anyone

Six decades in Congress before he was done.

When Donnie was impeached what did he yell?

The Dingells’ name is funny and he may be in hell.


Source: The New York Times

We the people

And so the day arrives at last

For the third time in all the past.

But the gravity of the situation

Appears to be lost on the nation.

His true crime and unpatriotic flaw?

Getting so many to mock the rule of law.


Source: Fox News

Unreal TV

In response to Fox giving Comey some air

Donnie went mental, which is not very rare.

Of course he has a different take on the news,

And it’s not so much about reporting the views

Of the people who make world events happen

But rather to give him a big round of clappin’!