Secretly Serviced

Secret Servicemen, caught out with whores,
Sent a shock through the diplomat corps.
(It's a precept of theirs
That "foreign affairs
Are more in our purview than yours.")

Members of the US Secret Service assigned to prepare for President Barack Obama's arrival in Cartagena were accused of hosting prostitutes for overnight visits in their hotel rooms. This potentially critical lapse in security cast a pall over the President's arrival at the important Summit of the Americas in Colombia on Friday. However, it did not derail one key accomplishment: the implementation of the new US-Colombian free trade pact.

Overheard in the Oval Office

"The sight of the Gulf with this slick in it,
Hits my stomach so hard it may sicken it,
So please get me the name
Of the ass who's to blame
At BP, so that I can be kickin' it."