Monday, January 13, 2020

A Limerick Inspired from a Story by Katie Benner.

Katie Benner. NYT.
@ktbenner



Ms. Benner prowls around court houses throughout the country, looking for antique spittoons.
She helped steal a Pulitzer Prize, but was made to put it back by the Mod Squad.
She believes the workplace is so boring it ought to be moved to Narnia.

She has worked as a vagabond loafer in San Francisco, covering things like
park benches and mail boxes with canvas. She was the first one to discover
that Silicon Valley  made hot dogs, not software. 
Before being kidnapped by the Times she appeared on stage
as Thelma Todd in Gone With the Wind. Her expert reporting
on financial hanky panky in the banking industry led to the Wall
Street Crash of 1929. She lives with two cockatoos and a maiden
aunt who gets lost on the subway and has to be retrieved frequently
by Boy Scouts.



"WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr declared on Monday that a deadly shooting last month at a naval air station in Pensacola, Fla., was an act of terrorism, and he asked Apple in an unusually high-profile request to provide access to two phones used by the gunman.
Mr. Barr’s appeal was an escalation of an ongoing fight between the Justice Department and Apple pitting personal privacy against public safety."
By Katie Benner. NYT.  

There was an old lawyer named Barr
who wanted the power of Tsar.
But he had to grapple
with monarchs at Apple,
who wouldn't let him get too far.

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