I composed this set of three linked sonnets—fourteen-line poems—to tell the story of when my own Catholic church closed in March 2020.
Tag - government shutdown
As a result of the government shutdown, the approval of new beer labels by the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade Bureau has ground to a virtual halt. It’s time to #freethebeer!
Abolishing the United States Military Academy (West Point), the Air Force Academy, and the Naval Academy would save over $1.25B per year.
This shutdown and the response from these angered TSA agents further shows the inability of the TSA to do their job, much less keep the public safe.
We are always told that a government shutdown is the worst thing in the world. And even if it isn’t the worst thing in the world, everybody thinks it is.
The phrase “government shutdown” is a rhetorical and propagandistic trick to make the American people think they have to surrender what they care about.