The Republican plan for our health care

The Republican plan for our health care
(Which started out more like a stealth care)
Has failed once again.
Any way that you spin
It's because it is more like their wealth care.

Upset that you can’t speak Valyrian?

Upset that you can’t speak Valyrian?
Want to expand from Bantu or Syrian?
This “Game of Thrones” tongue
From an app now has sprung.
So you don’t have to sound so plebeian.


The language-learning app Duolingo will now teach users how to converse in High Valyrian as part of its instructional programming.
The language, which is spoken by Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones, has been in the apps’ “incubator” for several months, and now has a completion date. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the language structure of High Valyrian was developed by the UC Berkeley alumnus David J. Peterson for the HBO adaptation of the George R.R. Martin series.
-- Global News, July 15, 2017

Condolences to our friend PSY

Condolences to our friend PSY
(You know, that “Gangnam Style” guy).
The song, “See You Again”
Brought his run to and end.
Manic dancing gave way to the sky.

Park Jae-sang, better known as PSY, is no longer the king of YouTube ... views, that is. Five years after the video for "Gangnam Style" was posted, and four-and-a-half years after that video was the first on the site to be viewed 1 billion times, the Korean pop star has been ousted from the top of the mountain by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's "See You Again," a song commissioned in memory of Paul Walker, the Fast and Furious actor who died in November, 2013.

NPR music - Jluy 11, 2017

I am constantly taken aback

I am constantly taken aback
At how TV news got out of whack.
They ignore the true winners
Who cook homeless dinners
To cover Kardashian / Black.

Don Jr., the son of the Prez

Don Jr., the son of the Prez,
Had a item he wished to confez.
He met a Russian skirt
For Democratic dirt,
But got nothing.  Well, that’s what he sez.