From the New York Times. Wednesday March 14 2018

“They have treated the use of a military-grade nerve agent
in Europe with sarcasm, contempt and defiance,” Mrs. May
said of Russia. “Their response has demonstrated complete
disdain for the gravity of these events. They have provided no
credible explanation.”

The Russians like using nerve gas

To keep down the rogue spying class.

They really don’t care

How much or just where --

As long as they get ‘em en masse.

Senior Myanmar officials denied on Wednesday that the country’s
military had committed any crimes against Rohingya Muslims,
one day after a United Nations expert suggested that the government
was implicated in “the crime of genocide” against the persecuted
Muslim minority.

In Myanmar they take great pride

In stamping out all genocide.

Each minority

Is really quite free --

To shut up or flee or to hide.

Those are the main conclusions of the World Happiness Report 2018,
released Wednesday. Finland is the happiest country in the world,
it found, followed by Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, the
Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia. Though
in a different order, this is the same top 10 as last year, when Norway
was No. 1 and Finland was fifth.

There was an old man from Helsinki

Who gazed at the world through his pinky.

“It keeps in perspective

Whatever’s defective”

He said while he played with a Slinky.