It's Monday: All the News is Bad -- It's Columbus Day: Let's Celebrate the Potato -- SCOTUS Reputation at All Time Low

It's Monday; all the news is bad.

Stocks are down, the world's gone mad.

Even breakfast tastes suspect,

with additives and panic flecked.

The Autumn colors all seem moot,

while taking on the dread commute.

The headlines in the paper read

like a charnel house's creed.

Then the sun comes breaking through,

and at Starbucks there's no queue.

So I will face today with calm

and shout a quip, if not a psalm.

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Before Columbus landed on Hispaniola, the European diet was a bland affair. In many northern climes, crops were largely limited to turnips, wheat, buckwheat and barely. Even so, when potatoes began arriving from America, it took a while for locals to realize that the strange lumps were, comparatively speaking, little nutritional grenades loaded with complex carbohydrates, amino acids and vitamins.   WaPo

Columbus brought tubers to Spain;

thus french fries our globe did obtain.

With kugel and chips

the world fairly drips,

and hash browns add to our weight gain.

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Polls did not show Kavanaugh with majority support, and his vote was almost exclusively along party lines. Some House Democrats have vowed impeachment proceedings for what they consider his untruthfulness during the Senate hearings.  WaPo 

The highest courtroom in the land

is feeling a bit less than grand.

With Kavanaugh there

goodwill becomes rare --

I don't think they'll need a brass band.

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Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Even Google cannot keep

data safe from those who creep

through the information pile,

looking for good things to file.

But like all big enterprise

their customers do not get wise

unless reporters post a scoop,

and make public all the poop.

It seems like each new data breach

grows in scope and depth and reach.

The lowdown on your life is had

by ev'ry knave and nosy cad.