The Continuing Wall Brawl -- Tucker Carlson -- England Gets Cold Feet on Brexit -- What's One Dead Child, More or Less?

International treaties are supposed to guide the design, with the blessing of the International Boundary and Water Commission. But the U.S. has already built about 650 miles of border barriers over the objections of Mexican members of the binational commission.
by Molly Hennessy-Fiske for the LATimes

Show me a commission that the U.S. now obeys;

we're pretty independent with our own indecent ways.

Whether global warming or the placing of a wreath,

we take our mav'rick pleasures as we trample underneath

the comity of nations with our matchless twelve league boots--

and gather thorns and thistles as our most deserving fruits.

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The Fox News host Tucker Carlson has lost advertisers after saying on the air last week that allowing certain immigrants into the United States “makes our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided.”

By Tuesday, 11 companies — including IHOP and TD Ameritrade — said they would stop advertising on his prime-time show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

by Sapna Maheshwari for the NYT

There once was a bozo named Tucker

who spouted like some redneck trucker

on his TV show,

which died not too slow

as sponsors their faces did pucker.

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LONDON —More than two years after Britons voted to leave the European Union, the U.K.’s politicians still can’t agree on what kind of Brexit they want. Now more lawmakers are calling for a do-over, a second referendum that could potentially reverse the results of the first.   by Max Colchester and Jason Douglas for the WSJ

Divorces are messy, you know;

so Britons should go very slow

and rethink their plans

to rescind the banns

to go it alone on Skid Row.

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Green said he saw scores of children “stacked” in holding cells and huddled in foil blankets on concrete floors, alongside toilets lacking privacy screens.      by Nick Miroff for the Washington Post. 

Little children, come with me
to a prison where you'll see
lots of bunks and tinfoil wraps,
manacles and gingersnaps!

Do not worry, children dear;
though the place looks very drear.
It is where you get to stay
while your parents go away.

And should you die before too long
amidst the wailing weeping throng,
remember that your Uncle Sam
really doesn't give a damn.

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