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 Daily Beast

Totally Unrelated! But Not…

Of course this news comes as a small surprise…

Though there’s no connection between these guys!

But birds of a feather flock together

And folks you hire are a bellwether

Of the type of shop that you want to be.

Indictments are building… will they go free?


Source: The Bulwark

Oy, More Problems…

Not that Team Trump will ever even care

That pretty much their leader’s only prayer

To beat his legal and financial woes

Is to become President… so it goes.

He has always been only self-serving!

And that commitment has been unswerving.


Source: The Current

That’s a LONG Time

Italians can have some crazy views

But how about this last one in the news…

Assault is ok depending on time?!

No wonder stop watches are now bought by slime.

ANY time is too long for unwanted touch

And ten seconds is surely way too much.


Source: The New York Times

That’s Kinda Existential…

The interesting point that this story makes

Is that most people think poetry takes

Too much work to really understand it

So they don’t bother and have just canned it.

Clearly they need to spend more time right here!

Where everything’s simple, straightforward and clear…


Source: The Guardian

Games Men Play

Among all the strange things that men can do –

And there really are far more than a few –

I think that none would manage to combine

Such strength of response for something benign

As leaping over babies, just for fun…

American mothers would get their gun.


Source: The Economist

But Those Gas Stoves…!

From rebuilding America’s workforce

To putting Wall Street in its place, of course…

The Left and the Right are finding some terms

That each side fully believes and confirms

Will allow America to make hay!

Too bad the culture wars stand in the way…


Source: The Daily Beast

But how Do You Know?

Finally good news out of ChatGPT

And all the hype about writing for free!

At least it’s a win in the moral sense

For writers who’ve found the heat is intense.

Turns out if you’re good, no need to scurry…

It’s only crap writers who need to worry!


Source: The Daily Beast

Not the Fringe

A lifelong Republican, placed by Trump

With huge conservative cred, Wray’s no chump.

Yet the lunatic core of his own side

Grilled him with questions so dumb that he cried

“What you are saying sounds insane to me!”

Why don’t more Republicans also agree?


Source: The Guardian

The Price of Justice

No matter the context this just ain’t good

A sitting justice simply never should

Be the recipient of any largesse

From any lawyers about to address

The Supreme Court, where they’ll argue a case!

It really is a pretty big disgrace…


Source: The Atlantic

Um, Duh?

It’s not that leaders don’t get that debt sucks

It’s just that no one wants to spend any bucks

On things that other people have consumed

Because politically they would be doomed.

There’s no current benefit to the play

So they pass the buck to another day.