Americans have always been/full of patriotic sin/Domestic terrorists persist/in using an explosive fist/Guns and bombs are how they show/their jingoistic lumbago/Protect us, Lord, from partisans extreme/as they attack the American dream.
U.S. athletes who protest their country’s flag are playing right into China’s hands.
(WaPo)
Old Glory stands for something rare/But athletes do not seem to care/They turn their back upon its face/and thus its ideals do disgrace/When Beijing sees this foofaraw/they cannot help but shout 'Hoorah!/If one of them scorned their own flag/they'd wind up in a body bag!
TV news crews are increasingly threatened with violence on the job.
(WaPo)
Reporters on the TV news/are tough but do not like a bruise/They've learned it's best to cut and run/when someone has to wave a gun/to show their disappointment in/reporters and their next of kin/I guess now ev'ry boob tube bard/will have to use a bodyguard!
Octopuses and squid are full of cephalopod character. But more scientists are making the case that cuttlefish hold the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence.
(NYT)
The cuttlefish is quite astute/though it looks like a parachute/The scientists say it has brains/But still I think the fact remains/I'd rather eat one on a plate/than let it go and cogitate.
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