Return of the Frozen Dinner -- A Tweet from Trump -- Ralph Lauren -- Escaping Poverty

Frozen dinners are on a hot streak.

Sales of microwavable meals are rising at the fastest pace in a decade, drawing attention from food-company executives otherwise struggling with falling sales for well known but outdated brands.  WSJ

Eating frozen dinners is a perilous pursuit;

most of 'em taste like a bit of unrefined raw jute.

But if you undercook 'em, you can have 'em on a stick --

But either way the end result would make a caveman sick.

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Apple prices may increase because of the massive Tariffs we may be imposing on China - but there is an easy solution where there would be ZERO tax, and indeed a tax incentive. Make your products in the United States instead of China. Start building new plants now. Exciting! @realDonaldTrump

Make it in the USA or you will foot the bill

to keep the country going and not crash to a standstill.

I'll give you tax incentives if your widgets you will coin

not in Chinese sweatshop but a plant down in Des Moines!

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NEW YORK — At the end of his 50th anniversary show in Central Park, Ralph Lauren cried, and the audience stood and applauded. At the beginning of the elegant dinner that followed, Oprah Winfrey toasted the powerful symbolism imbued in his work, reflecting not only his own American success story but that of so many others. By the time guests drifted off towards the hazy lights of the city, they had the undeniable sense of how big, how defining and how magnetic fashion can be.

WaPo 

I've never been too dernier cri; I dress more like a slob.

I've never had relations with the fashionable mob.

I buy my clothes at Goodwill or some other cheap thrift store,
so Ralph Lauren can take a flying leap out past the shore.

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We keep hearing about an economy that’s referred to as robust or rip-roaring, which leaves a lot of people wondering how they missed out on the recovery. Earlier this year I began taking a closer look at how a state that’s leading the boom has 20% of its children living in poverty. In L.A. Unified, the number is 80%, and at one elementary school I’ve been taking a look at in the San Fernando Valley, 20% of the students are homeless.  Steve Lopez in the LATimes.

Real poverty is a gulag,

that follows you round like a dog.

The struggle to rise

only ends when you dies --

it's how we got to demagogue.