Monday, October 12, 2020

Today's Timericks. Monday, Oct 12, 2020


 



U.S.-China Trade War Gets Wrapped Up in Twist-Ties. Minnesota company’s plastic-and-wire closures—a fixture on bread bags—are at the leading edge of Washington’s tariff tiff with Beijing.  (WSJ)

@JoshZumbrun


My bread is bagged in plastic/to keep it fresh and moist/

but if it is not tied off/I fear the very woist/

TWIST ties are the answer/from good old Uncle Sam/

no furrin imports, buddy/no Chinese knock-offs, ma'am/

And if they undercut us/a tariff war they'll get/

until they holler 'Uncle!'/and eat crow with baguette. 


A surge in worldwide demand by educators

 for low-cost laptops has created shipment delays 

and pitted desperate schools against one another.

 Districts with deep pockets often win out.

(NYT)

@Kellen_Browning


Online classes are no good/in a flat broke neighborhood/

School districts will not bestow/laptops on the poor and low/

So a generation sinks/lacking any hashtag links/

to the future, bright and clean/which now belongs to those

with green.


North Korea’s ‘monster’ missile sends menacing

 message to next U.S. president.  (WaPo)

@simondenyer


Kim Jong Un is awful proud/that among the atom crowd/

his ballistic missiles loom/as the ultimate in doom/

They are aimed across the sea/at an unnamed enemy/

Canada or Mexico?/Mushroom clouds will let us know/

What a thankless task awaits/the next Prez of these United 

States!

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