weiss band

repressed Prussian teens
grew up to be Gestapo
in black leather boots

free press

Thirteen Syrians 

 smuggling out a journalist 

 martyred to the Cause

not concerned with the very poor

Mitt Romney's ethos 

"The Devil take the hindmost "

 smacks of Amalek

moved on

Mitt Romney's home state 

 seems unimpressed with the man 

 who left long ago

apres moi

History teaches 

 vast income disparities 

 spur revolutions

candor

We call it a "gaffe" 

 When a politician blurts 

 what he really thinks

old-time values

Santorum's fan-base 

 resents the Enlightenment, 

 clings to old untruths

reach out and touch someone

Out of the aether 

 haiku about this and that 

 random connection

sickenng

Even in this field 

 Santorum makes voters gag 

 they crave more than froth

firstborn

Babushka warned her 

 the first blini always stick 

she meant her firstborn

timeless

twenty years later
the Bill Murray film holds up
it's STILL Groundhog day

owned!

Potro schooled Kurtis
landing a Tandem glider
among other things

this just in!

in today's top news
"unsafe sex kills koalas"
can't make this stuff up

deflated

"lean and mean"? "puny"?
a shriveled Y-chromosome
makes its own humor

actuarial

Miami's death-rate
so many of them are old
sex is extreme sport

fringe

as per Mankiew
"supply-side economics...
charlatans and cranks"

all's fair

stealing launch-dollies
all part of the racing game
comp pilot. dickhead

word!

"love the lift you're in"
"you've got to go 'round and 'round"
truths never get old

local lore

Connie's crash story
kept everyone riveted
that cliff-launch was gnar!

forethought

Brian Lee warned us
t-shirt, no gloves, 15k
"you won't enjoy it"

classic

Stephenson explained
Kurtis' time management
POOR IMPULSE CONTROL

neither fish nor fowl

transition season
Orion and Scorpio
share the Dunlap sky

apocrypha

First Maccabees: two
invents "pikuach nefesh"
for folks who don't care

shazaam

Sexual tension 

crackles across the dance floor 

 lightning rives the night

Is this thing on??

Cellphone camcorders 

Orwellian surveillance 

 beyond Stalin's dreams

keep 'em coming

"Efficiency droop" 

 limits LED output 

 not dissertations

low S/N

One more conference 

to resolve Somalia's wars 

 drowned out in gunfire

deflated

Scant basis for pride 

 a shrivelled Y-chromosome 

defines what's manly

ick factor

A new poll confirms: 

women dislike Santorum, 

want a man who's clean

martyr

Bradley Manning's leaks 

 helped ignite the Arab Spring 

now, We march for him

State privilege

Manning's court-martial 

 criminalizing Free Press 

 state-sponsored terror

power corrupts

Oppenheimer mused 

 "Now I am become Shiva 

 Destroyer of worlds"

relativism

Third-party cookies 

Google endruns Safari 

 Who's being evil?

signs and wonders

Super nova blast 

one civilization's end 

star of bethlehem

gingerbread houses

Paradise for geese 

 straight out of the Brothers Grimm 

 produces foie gras

customizing perfection

Keep re-centering 

 perfeft circles turned in lift 

 may not be quite round

sic semper tyrannis

Bashar al-Assad 

earns a special place in Hell
 killing journalists

CHANGE this!

Cornered and cranky 

 Democrats mean to be heard 

 prosecute torture!

nostalgia

On Okinawa 

 steak houses and rootbeer floats 

 remember empire

still banging the drum for war

Senator McCain 

 calls for aid to Syrians 

 to topple Assad

archived

Arctic ground-squirrels 

buried seeds in permafrost 

 paleolithic

before Heller

Blood-stained Orestes 

 princeling of Mycenae's house 

 lived Catch-22

arms race

Parasitic wasps 

 die a horrifying death 

in tipsy maggots

fifty years later

No flash in the pan 

 transgenerational rock 

meet The Rolling Stones

bonding

Food-court therapy 

making faces at toddlers 

 drives stress levels down

top-down

Peru's ruling class 

 prefer illiterate maids 

polishing egos

naif

Teens' self-assurance 

unencumbered by wisdom 

 recruiters' fodder

you think education's expensive?

Old Afghan lament 

 instead of education 

 we were given wars

death spiral

Fearful investors 

 exacerbate Greece's plight 

 self-reinforcing

freeze frame

The strobe lamp's flicker 
 makes everything clear as death 
 no fourth dimension

monstrous

Assad's strangling Homs 
 like the seige of Leningrad 
 domestic abuse

taken for granted

Cornered and cranky 
Democrats mean to be heard 
 prosecute torture!

brave new world

Sprawling, ambitious 

 Pynchon's twisted post-war world 

 "Gravity's Rainbow"

Cumuli

 Clouds shaped like dung-heaps 

sure there must be a pony 

 somewhere around here

the violence inherent in the system

America's Right 

 believes in the Right to Work 

 for your overlord

the bridge is out

corrupting Latin

half a dozen different ways

 Europe sagged, and split

innovation

Original Sin

 framed the need for Salvation

Saint Paul's invention