Thursday, April 30, 2020

Verses from Today's Headlines. Minnesota. Unemployment. Trump. China. English Barristers.



Trump Officials Are Said to Press Spies to Link Virus and Wuhan Labs     NYT

What a giddy life have I/as a sneaky shifty spy/I make up all sorts of lies/for those White House Admin guys/If they want some China dirt/I will serve it for dessert!



Trump and Kushner Engage in Revisionist History in Boasting of Success Over Virus      NYT

Presidents and sycophants/remember not like elephants/They make their alibis so tight/that history and truth take flight/When they tweet and when they text/all their information's hexed.


How the pandemic consumed the labor market
Wapo

What job is safe from depredation/as we suffer as a nation/Blue or white, all collars fail/escaping from the pink slip tale/The only work that never lacks/is raising people's income tax.



In fast-warming Minnesota, scientists are trying to plant the forests of the future
WaPo

They're planting palm trees in St. Cloud/Duluth has a big suntan crowd/Pineapples now sprout/where once there swam trout/and ice fishing is disallowed!



Prodded by the coronavirus, thousands are making or updating their estate arrangements, but an archaic British law requiring two witnesses in person is forcing people to take drastic measures.  
NYT

Barristers must earn their fees/even with a dread disease/snatching clients right and left/They're becoming very deft/getting signatures despite/bars and walls and dogs that bite!


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