Overweight Tourists Discriminated Against in Greece -- Shh! World Noise Crisis -- Those Sneaky Advertisers -- Teacher Pay

Along with the cacophony from planes, trains and automobiles, the din pumped through headphones, at fitness classes and during rock concerts is damaging our health, the WHO’s guidelines published on Tuesday said. Even toys can present an auditory danger.

WJS

When you go to Upper Volta to escape the awful din

of the traffic and construction, and those tunes that ring like tin;

when, I say, you flee in panic, to Lake Biwa in Japan,

decibels will fly around you like some noisy Peter Pan.

There is no escape from clamor; caterwauling is our fate --

Lest librarians can conquer noise pollution at the gate! 

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Those sneaky advertisers with 'Paid Content' written wee

keep fooling me so that I read their ads consistently.

It's true their graphics sparkle with a gorgeous sex appeal,

but I ain't in the market for a Rolex or oatmeal.

I'm going to the news stand for a paper copy so

the ads stand out so plainly I can notice friend from foe. 

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The wages of American teachers have dropped over the past decade. That’s a long way from similarly wealthy European nations such as Germany, for example, where teachers are among the nation’s top earners and can make more money than Web developers or sometimes even entry-level doctors.  Washington Post

I do not think our teachers need big paychecks anymore.

It would make them cocky and they might become a bore.

Teaching for good money is not how this country works.

Not when you are training generations of store clerks.

Pure ignorance is something that we dare not really douse;

for look how well it's working up there in our own White House!

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Greece has banned "overweight" tourists from riding donkeys on the popular island of Santorini, after activists complained that they were suffering spinal injuries.  CNN

A tourist who sits on a burro
in Greece will be given a thorough
test of his weight,
and if it's too great
he'll walk in a humbling furrow.