Category Archives: Today’s News



Foreign Policy: The Comedy

Where, pray tell, are Gilbert and Sullivan
When we need them? Surely, the Mikado,
Lord High Executioner, their henchmen,
Could better guide this land’s limp bravado.
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Posted in Politics, Today's News, War

Modern History

Today, in Baghdad,
Car bombs killed
Twenty-eight humans
And wounded eighty-eight more.
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Posted in Death, Religion, Today's News, War, Words

The New Black Plague: Empathy

Not long ago, I whined:
“What’s wrong with me?
Why, despite my wealth and health,
My loving wife and sober kids,
My spirit writhes and wanes?”
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Posted in Politics, Religion, Today's News, War

The Latest News

It’s a holiday weekend,
And I’d like to write
Some joyous verse.
But reality rules.
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Posted in Death, Today's News

Salvation?

Those YouTube loops that fly around the Web1
(Stupid, crummy, but sometimes magical).
They clutter your machines, make brain-waves ebb,
But, sometimes, comicalize the tragic.
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Posted in Politics, Today's News, Wisdom

Storm Limericks

A furious storm surnamed Sandy
Whipped water and winds to a frenzy.
It struck here and there,
Laid cities all bare—
This happens when weather grows randy.
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Posted in Pain, Seasons, Today's News