2011-07-25

boundary condition

There's always that worm 
 twined around Yggdrasil's roots 
 our mortality

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inured

Bombings in Iraq 
 famine in Somalia 
 some news isn't news

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Murdoch most foul VI

 He knew what? And when? 
 news corps faces inquiry 
 cry 'Murdoch most foul!'

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2011-07-19

Night

in Norway's long night
Darkness belongs to the Trolls
people pray for Spring

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priceless!

Patrick Fitzgerald
bagged a fucking golden prize
Rod Blagojevich

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creative accounting

Congress has declared
only five wars on the books
the rest were freebies

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presidential powers

Harold Koh recants
where he stands on an issue
turns on where he sits

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evidence-based

The Church was outraged!
Lyell, Hutton and Playfair
shook Earth's foundations

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Appalachian trail

from Georgia to Maine
the iconic white blazes
keep hikers on track

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body and soul

Abraham Heschel
felt that his legs were praying
marching to Selma

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time lapse

MacBeth sympathized
Birnham wood had marched on him
like Ents on Orthanc

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defiant

capping Bernal Heights
radiolarian chert
defies erosion

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materialism

Funston pilots vie
for the grooviest new toys
like, whatever man

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dawn patrol

grazing the campsite
deer amble between our tarps
no grass goes wasted

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characterogenic

temperance is hard!
"more" is always the answer
for Americans

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monumental

Finishing dim sum 
 a cairn of chicken toe-bones 
 bears silent witness

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expiration date

Once past breeding age 
 why would you expect good knees? 
Darwin doesn't care

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Aspire!

For party faithful 
 Mao listed the 'three good things' 
 tell them what to dream

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foot on the throttle

Damming the Mekong 
 China threatens her neighbors 
 seige on a vast scale

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adrift

Ever towards the Right 
 Obama's compromises 
 betray his mandate

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de necessitate...

Proselytizing 
 seemed a fine thing to most Jews 
 before Constantine

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uncommon ground

One's sense of humor 
 seems the most obvious thing 
 except to others

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individuation

Each generation 
 finds their parents' humor lame 
 since the beginning

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2011-07-18

too much

Monster IPAs 
 homicidally hoppy 
 play poorly with food

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igNobel

To disrupt hiccups 
stimulate the vagus nerve 
 You'll think of something

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gastronomy

ersatz Caviar 
 calcium alginate beads 
 burst on the palate

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polytheist

Mitt Romney has faith 
 there's a planet of his own 
to rule as a god

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Bastille Day

Embrace our brothers! 
 who backed us against tyrants 
 Au quatorze Juillet

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crapshoot

Mendel knew the game
mixing and matching alleles
aleatory

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something new

Every human soul 
 unique in the universe 
 just like all the rest 

chickenshit

McConnellMust know 
 some things, you cant delegate 
 see: 'Schechter Poultry

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2011-07-11

Murdoch most foul V

Rupert Murdoch's press 
 perverts the course of justice 
 unconscionable

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noxious miasma

Down-wind of LA 
 Pasedena breathes the filth 
 of our pop culture

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recall

Chrysler's new ball-joint 
looked like a cost-saving coup 
 'til the wheels fell off

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indeterminacy

Murdoch's media 
 tilt the news they're reporting 
 like Heisenberg's cat

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the next revolution

Beijing hoards dollars 
 while her cities pile up debts 
 sharpen your pitchforks

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harsh masters

Parasites drive us 
 to stay in the Red Queen's Race 
 we're driven to sex

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Murdoch most foul IV

The News Of The World 
 makes more news than it reports 
 over-sized ego

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Murdoch most foul III

Murdoch's news organ 
 as bloated as his ego 
 mostly makes trouble

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end of an era

The last shuttle launch 
thundered off Cape Kennedy 
 then there was silence 

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Murdoch most foul II

Rupert Murdoch's clout 
 extending beyond the grave 
corrupts great and small

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Murdoch most foul

Murdoch's corrupt touch 
 taints the high and low alike 
 bile can't print the truth

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mirror of the mind

More often than not 
 sloppy habits of language 
 betray sloppy thought

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