In addition to miscellaneous status updates I also post “news haiku” from time to time, originally on a now-defunct site my sister was involved with, then to Facebook and more recently to Google+. Here are some examples.
News of the future:
Madoff shivved, owing inmates
Fifty billion cigs
Bin Laden kept porn!
Evil though he might have been
He was one of us.
Super committee:
Failure! Suggestion: Super-
duper committee.
Eight trillion in loans
Profits, just thirteen billion
No wonder banks fail
Cain reassessing:
“Am I heading for mere loss?
Or for epic fail?”
Your Senate at work
Yes: tax hike on workers. No:
Habeas corpus
Post office bankrupt
Path to profit: Make snail mail
Even snailier
Newt? Seriously?
Nostalgia and all, sure, but
Seriously: Newt?
Iraq War over
World War Two-type victory
Eludes us again
Miss Michele Bachmann
Bows out of the race. I won’t
Miss Michele Bachmann
SOPA, PIPA shelved
The public’s confused response:
“We won one for once?”