News of the day
 

I propose this thread for comments on any item of news that takes your fancy. Here's mine:

(A country music singer wanted on a drink driving charge has been shot and killed in a gunfight with a bounty hunter sent to detain him, authorities have said.)

Well, the bounty man comes steppin’ where he didn’t oughter should
So I pull my trusty weapon, but it never done no good,
‘Cos he pops me in the vitals, that ol’ bounty-huntin’ runt - he
Done ended my recitals as a drinkin’, drivin’ count---

How the French won Waterloo
 

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/...d-on-waterloo/

Bien sûr we won the battle!
We never face defeat:
No enemy could ever match
The speed of our retreat!

No point in letting this request languish on Labor Day (US)

Epigrams for Labor Day

Some fail to see entitlements
are public workers’ investments.

You have to hand it to the Right,
which rarely rhymes with what is right.

Some suck the tits they claim to hate
while they berate the Nanny State.

Wisconsin had great higher-education
until a drop-out ruled for its extinction.

"Hillary Clinton to Show More Humor and Heart, Aides Say" NY Times, Sept 7, 2015

Sillery, chillery,
Candidate Hillary
Cranks up the warmth as her
Numbers go south;

Never a hot number,
Cool as a cucumber,
Oleomargarine
Froze in her mouth.

Froze in her mouth?

Two Records Tumble

Let Merseyside get moist and moony
Now that it's fifty goals for Rooney
While others note, with quiet euphoria,
Our Liz has outscored Queen Victoria!

J.B. pp. C.A.D

Rude crude dude screwed.

Now I just have to find a news item. Perhaps the one about Donald Trump and his new running mate. Trump is much funnier than Corbyn, but then anyone is funnier than Corbyn.

Donald Trump has a new running mate?

Didn't I read something about that Alaskan lady, or is that old news?

Shame!
 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/20/politi...oston-beating/


Illegal Shame

Shaming immigrants remains our shame,
and evidence of that is clear today.
Some think it is a patriotic game.
Last week, in Boston, they showed us how to play:
Two men, inspired by Trump, were soaring high
on booze and awed that he was polling first
for president—a snarling bright-white guy
they bet would slake their bloody red-meat thirst.
They found a homeless man, unkempt and thin,
and thought him an illegal, sleeping sauced.
His being poor while brown they saw as sin;
their beating him till black and blue its cost.
Both proved their righteous passion for Trump’s race
by pissing on a brown but legal face.