“Shirtless”

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

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Didactic Doggerel

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Space-Ball

Note: Merkanooka is in Australia. Seguin, a town in Texas, is pronounced “suh-GHEEN.” Turley is in Oklahoma.

A space-ball fell from nowhere on Namibia,
A place more noted for a fossil tibia.

Another one, the Merkanooka ball
From Gemini, no mystery at all,

Held water for the astronauts to drink.
This latest one I don’t know what to think.

A Turley lady got a noggin-knock
From sky junk happily not hard as rock.

The Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that has been stuck,
A fourteen-ton colossus out of luck,

Will make a very hard landing not far
From where I hope that only oceans are.

A Delta rocket needed a latrine,
And dropped its waste from Saudi to Seguin.

A nuked-up Russian bird ran all amuck
And slammed the Arctic like a hockey puck.

This litter from the heavens makes me mutter:
How on earth to dodge the rain of clutter?

The slogan of Texas, “Don’t mess with me,”
Excludes the mess from space, apparently.

The only remedy I know of, fellas,
Is carrying some mighty stout umbrellas!

References:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45770560/ns/today-today_tech/t/mysterious-space-ball-
crashes-down-namibia-grasslands/#.TvSRPTUS2Ag
http://www.space.com/9708-worst-space-debris-events-time.html
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/man-escapes-as-satellite-piece-crashes-through-roof-
160651

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“Physical person”

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Law school was where I first met the term “physical person.” It puzzled me initially: What person would not be “physical”? That started my education about the bizarre legal fiction that asserts corporations to be people with rights and privileges similar to yours and mine. Its latest twist is the 2010 “Citizens United” decision. That’s context for this somewhat coldblooded, but astute, quip by Timothy Egan:

“A corporation will never be a citizen until you can execute one in Texas.”

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Tentative Signage

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Kinda There –>
<– A Little Bit Yonder

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Happy Words

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Alabama Law, 1839:
“An Act to Suppress the Evil Practice of Carrying Weapons Secretly”
Adverteasement For Staying Powder:
“Taters, Maters, Boodang Pudd’n, Black Strap ‘Lasses”

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Happy Words

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

Better heathen I.
Find your niche and scratch it.
Chainsaw of life.
Sucker the needy.

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Idle Doggerel

Posted on May 12, 2018 by JMN

When a man named Bakker
Meets his Makker
He’ll get ice cream and cakke
In the Lord’s Accre.

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Happy Words

Posted on May 11, 2018 by JMN

Me neither. You too?
Go ahead, make my tea.
“If you can’t be funny, be interesting.” (Harold Ross)
Your what?

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Signage

Posted on May 11, 2018 by JMN

Been Rode:
Ain’t –>
<– Done

Poppy:
Seed –>
<– Cock

For:
Given –>
<– Bidden

Away:
This –>
<– That

Do:
Nothings –>
<– Gooders

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“Hoss”

Posted on May 11, 2018 by JMN

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