I wish now we heard
Political discourse
Like Abraham Lincoln's.

In honor of Honest Abe's birthday (February 12, 1809), a few lines from his 2nd inaugural address, given just one month prior to his death.

Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. . . . "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Pixar's said goodbye,
Roy's gone too. Investor show;
Changing of the guard?

Late breaking update

And now for something completely different:

Oh blue rounded tin,
What treasure lies within you?
Pink, potted meat: Spam!

There's a whole sub-culture devoted to Spam haikus. . .

Some of us may need
Comfort at this journey point
Based on where we've been.

Jeopardy is what
Alex Trebek discovered
While driving last week.