Traditional Christmas Song Banned from Airwaves for Encouraging Rape -- California Republicans are Irrelevant -- The Art of the Apology

Cleveland radio station WDOK decided last week to remove the classic song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from its holiday rotation over lyrics that, through a #MeToo lens, now seem a little rape-y.  by Libby Hill in the LATimes

The Holiday season begins

with cleaning up gender-based sins.

Old classics of song,

if they hint at wrong,

are stuck full of feminist pins.

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LOS ANGELES — The California Republican Party — a once dominant power in the nation’s largest state, the party of Earl Warren, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan — is teetering on the brink of irrelevance.

by Adam Nagourney in the NYT

I want to vote Republican, but they have left the state.

Amazon will ship me some, but I can't pay the freight.

For following that Awful Man in Washington DC

Republicans have been reduced to bleak obscurity.

I guess I'll start a Party of my own next time I vote

and run on any platform that will grow a big banknote.

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Wells Fargo & Co. is firing around three dozen district managers for oversight failures related to a sales scandal that erupted in its retail bank more than two years ago, according to people familiar with the matter.   by Emily Glazer in the WSJ

Overzealous managers who stretched the truth a bit

have lost their cushy banking jobs as morally unfit.

I'd like to offer up myself for one of those swell jobs,

because I won't do nothin' that will irritate the mobs.

I'll sit upon my leather chair and do nothing with panache; 

wear a silken necktie and spout nothing but pure bosh.

A model manager I can become with little push,

avoiding controversy as I sit upon my tush.

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So why issue a long and drawn-out public apology, a year after the fact? 

by Antonia Noori Farzan in the Washington Post

The art of the apology consists in going long

with a list of cliches that are struck like Chinese gong.

A lengthy mea culpa will dilute the controversy

until the public in despair will grant a tired mercy.

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