Verses Based on Stories in Today's Washington Post ** Republicans prepare to defend Trump in open hearings; Mulvaney no longer seeking judge’s ruling on testifying ** The climate chain reaction that threatens the heart of the Pacific ** ‘Midway’ is a big, old-fashioned war movie, with one thing missing: human beings.

@WPJohnWagner  @ColbyItkowitz

Make up your mind, Mulvaney!

You're acting a little bit zany.

First you say yea and then you say nay,

you're giving our Congress a very bad day.

Never has coyness been craven as this;

Your honor's more riddled with holes than a Swiss!

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@simondenyer  @chriscmooney

The Sea of Okhotsk is beginning to boil

with nothing much for all the men there that toil

for salmon to feed millions off in Japan;

soon they'll have nothing to put in fry pan.

What is the cause of this mishap so cruel,

that salmon no longer will run in a school?

The ocean is warming, the fish have dispersed;

and no one is knowing how this is reversed.

So crank out the tofu, cuz seafood becomes

rare as a chicken who uses its thumbs! 

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@mr_osullivan

Movies are bigger and louder and longer,

but my derriere isn't getting much stronger.

To sit and munch popcorn and drain a large Coke

for over two hours to me is no joke.

I head for the restroom, and when I get back

the script has now taken a different tack.

New characters enter and old ones are gone;

is this still Midway (it looks like Bataan)?

Out in the parking lot snow has begun;

when did the movies lose most of their fun?

From now on it's Netflix or Disney, by golly;

the popcorn is cheap and I don't need a trolley.