To the dismay of wool proponents who tout their eco-friendly credentials, they have landed on the wrong side of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The animal-rights group recently erected billboards in Boston and New York’s Times Square that display a nude picture of actress Alicia Silverstone with the phrase “Leave Wool Behind” across her backside.
WSJ
Bless the naked little lamb
who is taken from its dam,
sheared of comfort, warmth, and peace;
all so we can wear its fleece.
Don't you fret, my lamby dear;
soon no longer will they shear
off your fleecy wool for cloak --
prices charged will leave them broke!
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Put these trend lines together, and you are left with a picture of the U.S. stepping back from the world, while other countries—friend and foe alike—step in to fill the void. Much of this picture is the result of President Trump’s America-first impulses increasingly coming to the fore . . .
WSJ
The White House is leaving behind
all of our friends, once aligned
to keeping our back
from sneaky attack --
so now our diplomacy's blind.
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“I am exactly like Mark Twain,” Russell said, continuing to type. “Except he was famous, talented and worked hard.”
LATimes
Newspapers are dinosaurs; why won't they go away?
The internet has all the news, and you don't have to pay.
No small town paper editor is gonna make a diff;
and what they print is usually of baseball or who is stiff.
If Mark Twain could see newspapers today, I think he'd cry;
they'd never print his story of Miss Jefferson's glass eye.
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