[Max Goodman]

Verse news at Slate.

[Nigel Mace]

Unbelievably vile policy - but, alas, not very good limericks.

[John Isbell]

Vile is Trump's middle name.
I quite like the lines "But our motives aren't tribal, / They're inspired by the Bible."
Also yes, Nielsen's tweet is a neat example of chutzpah or cojones.

Cheers,
John

[Max Goodman]

I think Dessem has a nice way with an awkward rhyme, but mostly, since, as Moore says, "there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle," to find verse in an extra-literary context like this I find very validating.

[Michael Cantor]

How can these sons-of-bitches live with themselves? I am so happy that I am old enough to have spent most of my life - and done my travelling - many years ago, in a world where you were proud to be an American. If you want to be truly depressed listen to this, and read this https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...idterms-652246 Stephen Miller is the Joseph Goebbels of America.

[Jim Moonan]

Michael: "Stephen Miller is the Joseph Goebbels of America."

Yes.

[James Brancheau]

Limericks? For these political times? Not sure they do the job.