Today's Timericks: Senate Poised to Pass Huge Industrial Policy Bill to Counter China. (NYT)

 

Uncle Sam is way behind in factory production/So China stays way in the lead, creating quite a ruction/Congress is determined to make factories athletic/Let us hope they pony up, and not go all cosmetic!

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a federal law that requires only men to register for the military draft.  (NYT)

Who but men would want to register to go to war?/Women have more sense than to desire such a chore/Of course today the sexes are not cut and dried at all/and so the local draft board must create new protocol.

Rome Gets Its First Pizza Vending Machine. Will Romans Bite?  (NYT)

Coffee in a paper cup; a can of pop -- okay/but automatic pizza should not see the light of day/Some things must have loving hands to season and to bake/a pizza pie without such care is just a lifeless fake!

The fourth estate has fallen on hard times, and so PR/has stepped in to reenergize reporters failing star/When you read a story about orange juice supply/you can bet that Tree Ripe has a finger in the pie/So take each story that you read with just a grain of salt/and remember facts are swayed with money by default.