From the Wall Street Journal. Saturday March 31 2018

Palisades Collection was in the business of purchasing debts from

creditors at pennies on the dollar with the hope of fully collecting

on the debt, according to the lawsuit. That is a common practice

in the debt-collection industry, and collection agencies

regularly use court systems to try to collect debts.

For pennies on the dollar they will make your life a hell;

They’ll drag your name right through the mud and sue your butt as well.

The debt collection agency has scruples so minute

You could fit ‘em all inside a bacilluses’ snoot.

Why don’t we sic these monsters on ol’ Putin or Jinping,

So they can vex our enemies in Moscow and Beijing?

CERTAIN WINES have reputations tarnished by the

connotation of “cheap.” They’re usually the

lowest-priced offerings on a restaurant wine list

and shelved near the floor in a wine store. Often

described by unpromising adjectives like “affordable,”

“drinkable” or simply “fun,” they include wines such as

Beaujolais, Chianti, Pinot Grigio,

Chilean Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadet.

I never drink wine that is cheap;

Good wine has a price that is steep.

I pay it because

Next morning the fuzz

Inside of my head ain’t so deep.

On Thursday and again on Saturday, Mr. Trump

on Twitter blasted Amazon over its business practices

and economic impact, saying the company should pay

more in taxes and is “putting many thousands of retailers

out of business.”

I think Mr. Trump is so mean

To Amazon cuz he has seen

How they deliver

Without a quiver --

While his pledges aren’t worth a bean.

New Yorkers flush the toilet millions of times a day,

creating 1,200 tons of biosolids, or treated sewage sludge.

Privately owned Big Sky Landfill in Adamsville, Ala.,

has permits to take nearly all of that from New York’s

five boroughs.

The Big Apple has more BS

Than anyone else, so I guess.

It’s shipped to Dixie,

Which might be tricksy

When it’s used to grow watercress.

While the U.S. doesn’t legally restrict women from

occupations, it scores particularly low on the leave

policies. The U.S. is one of just seven nations that don’t

require at least 14 weeks of paid leave. The others are

Suriname, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands,

Palau and Tonga. Overall, the U.S. ranks 121st out

of 189 economies on this dimension.

In Tonga new mothers must toil,

Burning the hard midnight oil;

Before we critique

We might as well speak

Of how it’s the same on OUR soil.