none are special because all are special

anonymity
shrouds the chevra kedisha
like a ketonet

frosted

Up above cloud-base 
 humidity's off the charts 
 frost coats my goggles

mashed potatoes

Too much inertia 
resisting each yaw input 
 snow clumps on my board

friends

Pointing and laughing 
Butt-head cuts Beavis no slack 
 face-plants are funny

be the board

Thinking while riding 
 over-loads my processor 
 face-plant in the snow

one for the team

Shattering the bridge 
 Gandalf cast the Balrog down 
 though it cost him dear

elevated

Purified in fire 
Mithrandir left Khazad dum 
 greater than he'd come

super-G

Turns just slow you down 
 point down the gravity well 
 Newton beckons you

big boys, big toys

It's never too late 
 to have a happy childhood 
 in a 4X4

earned turns

Humping for fresh tracks
 upwards from the Summit Chair 
 march of the penguins

priorities

Who would you wait for 
 on a pristine powder day 
 when there are no friends?

comfort

Think of a pot-roast 
 fit to serve to a goddess 
 try braising short ribs

progress?

Neolithic man 
 learned to live on mostly grain
and invented sprue

gory

trekking in Nepal 
 don't contest the right of way 
 when you meet a yak

land-grab

much as with hobbits 
 the myth of The Empty Land 
 justifies our deeds

Justice is blinded

not looking backwards
 Obama blinkers the Law
 that's where the crimes are

national self-determination of Peoples

In Jake Garner's mind 
 the Kurds deserve their own state 
Paul Bremer nixxed that

pervert II

Yitzhak Shapira 
 to justify felonies 
 perverts the Torah

biocontrol

A dab of cat food 
 recruits an army of ants 
 to beat back cane-toads

worse than bad

Nothing could be worse 
 than doing efficiently 
what should not be done

cover-up II

The ethicsts found 
 deliberate misconduct 
 in John Yoo's memos

cover-up

David Margolis 
 down-rated Yoo's misconduct 
 to mere "poor judgement"

not cold enough

Dick Cheney's chest pains 
 baffle cardiologists 
 they can't find a heart

tough crowd

academia
treachery and betrayal
better to come armed

unaccountable

David Margolis 
 gutted the ethics report 
 to cover Yoo's ass

justice is blinded

ignoring the past
Obama blinkers the Law
that's where the crimes are

forces of darkness

Vaccines' opponents 
 spreading ignorance and fear 
 go on killing kids

the art of fear

Fear of immigrants 
 put teeth into "Dracula"
Bram Stoker cashed in

crazy system

Pressure for tenure 
 drives some biologists nuts 
 others start that way

in the blink of a sky

The lid of heaven 
 blinks, and the sun vanishes 
 ticking off one day

one way,or another

We voted for change 
 instead, we got cover-up 
 revolution brews

mr. Holder

Skip the fine speeches 
 just prosecute torturers
 or shut the fuck up

it's not the body

Two monks ford a stream 
 one carries a girl across 
 one can't put her down

twilight of the hegemon

George W. Bush
 ended U.S. dominance
Stalin might be proud

fixative

once captured in ink
ideas cease to evanesce
pinned like butterflies

crass

Justice Kennedy 
damns the Prison Guards' union 
 drumming up business

Intelligent design? My foot!

running plantigrade
 we traumatize knees and hips
every time we land

perverse incentives

As long as doctors 
"get paid to put in more tubes"
our system's broken

yotzer Or

  

Crafting a cosmos 
 from primordial chaos 
 potters' deity

Talmidei chochamim m'arbim shalom b'olam

Yitzhak Shapira's
yeshiva for terrorists
doesn't increase peace

bearded bigots

West Bank Ku Kux Klan 
yeshiva Od Yosef Chai 
 spread terror by night

Raj Patel

In the bleakest night 
 the Lord of Lights manifests 
 in San Francisco

waste-reduction

Breeder reactors 
 obviate the waste problem 
 and wean us off coal

plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

The People's Savak 
grew as brutal as the shah's 
 its days are numbered

black-hat terrorists II

Yitzhak Shapira
terrorizes the goyim
 and desecrates God

condescension

rare politicians
don't assume that we're stupid
 but they don't last long

coy god

why does Raj Patel
 live as an economist
 when he's Lord of Lights?

Shapira

Terrorist hot-bed 
 yeshiva Od Yosef Chai 
 black-hatted bigots

black-hat terrorists

West Bank Ku Kux Klan 
 yeshiva Od Yosef Chai 
 spread terror by night

cosmic drama

'Cross the Winter sky 
 Sirius hounds Orion 
 big screen , slow motion

biomaterials

Dry mycelium 
can be formed for building blocks
 mold the mold in molds

Od Yosef Chai II

Try, and convict them!

although they're my own brothers

pious terrorists

Od Yosef Chai

Try, and convict them!
although they're my own brothers
Black Hat terrorists

talmidei chochamim m'arbim shalom

Bearded terrorists 
 running west-bank yeshivot 
 tear the world apart

soft-focus

Fog lines Topanga 
 soft packing material 
 for a crumbling star

born to kvetch

he isn't dying
it turned out to be just gas
now he's all depressed

short horizons

Drug discovery 
 takes longer than M&A 
who can see that far?

not with a bang

Drug discovery 
 takes too long for MBAs 
 who just think short-term

fertile crescent

History turns back 
 after fifty centuries 
Iraq imports wheat

lawless

Jeffrey Addicott
finds disappearing one's foes
quite expedient

one-way

Grimly determined 
 to own the conversation 
no time to listen

bounds

Youngstown Sheet and Tube 
capped the president's powers 
 even in war-time

hypocrisy II

Iran's government
clothes itself in piety
blood streaks their green robes

Yazid

Iran's government 
 renounced legitimacy 
 to rule by brute force

what a drag

Falling down a mine
 terminal velocity 
 favors mice, not cows

family business

For Karzai's brother 
Kandahar is "Chinatown"
 wealth flows from water

kloog

 tongue and diaphram 
 dance in awesome synchrony 
 to produce clear speech

The Tree of Liberty...

Most Iranians 
never knew the shah's regime 
they just feel oppressed

incarnate this!

as tongues form language
 or as senates legislate
mind is what brains do

theocracy

when there's just one Truth
 and the State possesses it
 they'll call dissent "sin"