Congress is Off This Week - Well, They’re Off

Israel has an election next month, which we would never try to influence, and it’s usually the President who invites heads of state.

By inviting Netanyahu to town 

John Boehner is breaking new ground

Protocol violated

Prerogative inflated

In his effort to put Barack down.

There is no other reason to do this except that it feels good.

In the House, Republicans hold sway

And vote to kill Obamacare Today!

He’ll veto the measure

So it’s just for their pleasure

Are they playing Fifty Shades of Nay?

Is This Offensive 2 U?

Twitter, e mail, and thumbtyping wreak havoc with grammar and spelling.  Sometimes it really bothers me.

The way people write and they talk

Screeches like blackboard and chalk.

If they’re understood

Does that mean it’s good,

Despite the aural assault?

Yet, I am happy it’s a living language, and sometimes it’s POW.

English has long been in ferment

As writers bend rules and invent

It’s colorful making

It’s grammar rule breaking

And Shakespeare was preeminent.

Snow School Today

I’ve been shoveling since I got out of bed

The snow banks are over my head

As all children know

To enjoy the snow

Stop shoveling and jump on a sled!

Super Bowl Sunday

All the inflated rhetoric and egos were upstaged by allegedly underinflated footballs.

A playoff is a high pressure game

All teams feel their passions inflame

As game pressure mounts

Every little bit counts,

But the footballs do not feel the same.

Once again PBS takes on the NFL.

For more than six hours on the air

The best teams in football are there

It’s two teams against

Lord Grantham and servants,

I Say! It scarcely seems fair.