Ledes & Limericks. Thursday January 11 2018

Landlords are expunging the m-word from shopping-center entrances,
Facebook pages and corporate materials. Of the 90 regional malls
that have undergone renovations since 2014,
17 have removed “mall” from their names, according to property
consultancy JLL.

From the Wall Street Journal

Now‘Mall’ is a word that is banned

From retail space across the land.

It conjures up scenes

Of food courts and teens,

And shopping that’s totally bland.

Pope Invites the Poor to the Circus,

and Animal Activists Protest

Someone had best call a cop --

The kids are inside the big top!

Where they just might see

Some hilarity

Or animals that like to hop!

Junk Food Tax is Legally Viable,
Finds New Analysis  from Drover’s Magazine  

They’re taxing all the goodies that I need to comfort me --

Ev’rything from Cheetos to the gummies from Trolli!

The only thing the nanny state will never tax, I guess,

is something green and leafy like the cursed watercress!