2009-12-29

steamy

perfect popovers
bitten fresh from the oven
exhale in my face

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glorious afterlife

Killed on Ashura 
 Mousavi's nephew rose up 
to martyr status

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Asian peril

Menacing boaters 
 carp erupt from the river 
 like self-hurling bricks

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smug

in Voltaire's Candide
Leibniz was caricatured
too smug to observe

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2009-12-28

bad karma

Impious regime 
fires on crowds on Ashura 
now that's revolting

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life is for learning

always the teacher 
she seeks to be in control 
rather than to learn

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2009-12-27

erased from history's pages

surpassing Yazid
spilling blood in a bad cause
 Ahmadinejad

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structural problem

 Patrick T. Dowling 
 said "the more tubes you put in 
the more you get paid"

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heal thyself

This planet's diseased 
 feverish and fading fast 
 maybe we're the plague

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values

NSF's budget
would be a rounding error
for the Pentagon

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now feel this!

Massive sub-woofers 
 clue the whole audience in 
 at the film's climax

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reformation

 What rumbles towards us 
 in post-islamic Iran? 
 a Thirty-Years War?

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order and magnitude


Mexico's police 
run on a rounding error 
 for the drug cartels

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quest on, dude!

Forget the dragons 
 across the puberty bridge 
 sex becomes the quest

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the people are rising

Mousavi's nephew 
was martyred on Ashura 
 Yazid won't last long

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layered reality II

Sometimes, one sees clouds. 
 but like Monet's lily pond
 the blue sky's still there

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layered reality

Sometimes, one sees clouds. 
 but the wise soul understands 
 the blue sky's still there

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Persian passions

surpassing Yazid 
spilling blood in a bad cause 
Ahmadinejad

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Teheran heats up

 Persian dualists 
 call their oppressor 'Yazid' 
 no room for parley

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recursion

The very idea 
 that language is a virus 
 is a virus too

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listening

Rivers of data 
 threaten to capsize the mind 
 no filters, no wit

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Holmes' intellect

if you're Guy Ritchie 
 choreographing a fight 
 is rocket science

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2009-12-26

haunting

plinking in the night 
raccoons found the toddler's toy 
left out on the deck

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2009-12-25

bonded

the mingling of breath
more even than eye contact
horse intimacy

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verdant

golden Xmas morn
oaks loom on glowing grass slopes
Maxfield Parrish light

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2009-12-24

finite resources

so smart and so dumb 
Robin Williams understood
president Clinton

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Free Press ain't free

Why buy newspapers 
 what the state wants you to know 
is yours free at Tass

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2009-12-23

Tzimtzum

The Enlightenment 
 made room for democracy 
 by shrinking the Church

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Assad

Bashir al-Assad 
thinks he has crushed Lebanon 
 has he not read Dune?

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news from Nantes


Holiday in France 
be a hamster for a week 
"it's not abnormal"

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2009-12-21

talk to the man


Ashfaq Kayani 
 lets Zardari sing and dance
 while he pulls the strings

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lean cat

muscles bunch and flow
 an anatomist's model
 stalks the impala

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juggernaut

Mourn Montazeri! 
 the revolution still rolls 
with no one driving

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broken eco system

something is missing
 acorns pile up underfoot
who ate my turkeys?

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Iran's clock

Jefferson foresaw
  another revolution 
each generation

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free Iran

Thirty years later 
 who's still nurturing the flame? 
Montazeri's dead

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byzantine

Saeed Hariri 
 hugs the baron Harkonnen 
 while plotting revenge

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2009-12-19

permanent occupation

Obama's promise 
 to pulls troops out of Iraq 
 ignored contractors

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cultivating lies

The Korean war 
 taught us what torture is for 
bogus confessions

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whore

His hypocrisy 
would make Joe Lieberman blush 
if he were a mensch

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misunderestimated

Intellectuals 
dismissed Palin as just wrong 
 but she's stupid, too

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sampling rate

Fossilization 
 records only sparse data
from life's rich parade

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sparse data

Fossilization 
 edits the data we get 
 episodically

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special child

Sometimes George was right 
 studying his report card 
 he thought he's special

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of form and of substance

All Pakistan knows 
 real power is Kayani's 
 he has the army

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bigger than Jesus


After playing God 
 Freeman took a bigger role 
Nelson Mandela

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2009-12-18

something special for the holidays

for leopard seals
penguins are seasonal treats
a nice change from krill

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shackelton's dilemna

blanketed in fat
penguins come ready-to-roast
what wine goes with that?

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providential

all ready to roast
penguins come well-wrapped in fat
bacon's optional

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avatar

Play at being god 
in a world you've created 
 direct a movie

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poor dumb brute

Zardari's red cape
keeps our envoys distracted
from Kayani's sword

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2009-12-17

turf

Too many elbows 
crowd me away from the stove 
 now something's burning

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ambidextrous


David sang laments 
"how are the mighty fallen"
 while seizing power

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better than crying


Will Rogers averred 
 I just read the newspapers 
 the jokes aren't mine

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source of creation


Only Earth herself 
 beyond any dwarf or elf 
 could unmake the Ring

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special guy

Baruch Spinoza 
made enemies everywhere 
 easy as footprints

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2009-12-14

get real, Harry

Harry Reid feigns shock 
Lieberman won't vote with us!
He thinks we're stupid

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naive

sullen high-school kids
act like they invented sex
did they come from mars?

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2009-12-13

new-found virtue

Danes and Norwegians 
 renounced war, but kept the gold 
 pillaged from convents

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This bested my Jamis?

Neoptolemus 
took Andromache to bed 
 in his father's stead

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orphaned

Where was Laertes? 
why should Nestor play grandsire 
 to Telemachus?

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what a pit!

Darvaza crater 
 seems a fitting monument 
 to Turkmenbashi

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treason?

Yoo and Addington 
 conspired to bring down the State 
 undermining Law

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December dawn

bleary solar orb
 still gummy with last night's mists
barely sees the day

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where there is no man

Poor Telemachus
 trapped while Nestor rambles on 
 where was Laertes?

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the arc of history

Learn humility! 
 terrestrial vertebrates 
 may be just a fad

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a posse of one

Ithaca's orphan 
 Telemachus had no friends 
better than his dogs

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2009-12-10

evil

Vote Cheney-Chthulu ! 
 if you walk on the dark side 
don't settle for less

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anarchists

Yoo and Addington 
conspired to bring down the State 
 undermining Law

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more a selling point than a buying point

Twelve meters of snow 
 piled downwind of the Great Lakes 
 crushes house prices

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where the lighting is good

Panicked jack rabbits 
chase their shadows futilely 
 fleeing my headlights

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resist!

a whole new cold war
mutant neuraminidase
gives flu a new edge

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the fittest pathogen

in Vietnam's flu
mutant neuraminidase
starts the new arms-race

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2009-12-09

legacy

Float a bond today 
 let your kids pay the interest 
 family values!

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stepping out

gussied up in snow 
mt. Diablo's stepping out
full winter plumage

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2009-12-07

Punch and Judy

we refuel Reapers
 Pakistan supports Lashgar
puppet fights puppet

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interest group

Senator DeMint 
set the Right above what's right 
 to serve the people

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pressure

The spaniards go wild 
 Raphael Nadal's left arm 
 could lift a whole team

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marketing

Austrians are proud 
 billing Mozart as their own 
 not so much Hitler

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intolerant

Where they don't exist 
 invisible minarets 
stoke Swiss phobias

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crammed RAM

Excess of data 
 held in active memory 
courts paralysis

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knowledge from data II

Explicit search keys 
 capped what you could find later 
in your data base

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knowledge from data

Full searchable text 
 multiplied data's value 
 exponentially

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unholy alliance

Libertarians 
 hold their noses when they vote
for the GOP

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2009-12-04

synchrotron radiation

shake an electron
like a tiny salt cellar 
a photon falls out

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2009-12-03

fine structure constant

in ten acts of speech
genesis sketched the cosmos
the rest runs on rules

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2009-12-02

rotten deal

propping up Karzai
 wins recruits for al Qaeda
 we can't afford it

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Iraqi wages

backing the wrong man
 Chalabi, not Sistani
 we earn derision

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