pirate kingdom II

State-sponsored hackers 

destroy wealth around the world 

Beijing: pirates' lair

carpe diem II

Selling Maine's elvers 

 locals live large for a day 

 eating the seed-corn

once more, with feeling!

Sean Bean keeps dying 

 to satisfy our blood lust 

That's entertainment!

externalities

American Coal 

destroys American Wealth 

 we all bear the costs

it's not austerity if you're on top

Thatcherization 

 threw workers under the bus 

 bankers called that "fair"

colony collapse

Sub-lethal doses 

 of neonicotinoids 

bees get stoned and split

he's bbbbback!

The campaign heats up 

Romney's mask shows what's beneath 

 morph to Max Headroom

it's all personal

Streep's 'Iron Lady' 

 apoplectic Thatcherites 

first-rate theatre

growth

Professor Lessig 

 evolved from a Reaganite 

into a real mensch

never let 'em see you sweat

Donald Sutherland 

 from MASH to The Hunger Games 

 studied insouciance

wards of the state

GOP values

Oil Company subsidies 

 corporate Welfare

free therapy

The Nth time around 

 Woody Allen's neuroses 

 just aren't funny

vets are expensive

Until there's a draft 

 "Stop Loss" will kill off our troops 

 second tour, or Nth

Hope dies last

Professor Lessig 

sees that our system's corrupt 

 but won't despair. . .yet

Rootstrikers

Lawrence Lessig strikes 

at the roots of corruption 

 where money shapes laws

more rush, less speed

Take two steps backwards 

heaving on a too-long wrench 

snapped the bolthead off

settled law

Stare Decisis 

puts the spotlight on "Filburn" 

 for those who have eyes

influence peddlar

He's no lobbyist! 

Newt Gingrich sells influence 

 as if that's better

the Banks' man

Geithner's friends don't lose 

recapitalizing banks 

leaves us on the hook

settled law

Wickert v. Filburn 

 read the Commerce Clause broadly 

 Stare Decisis

cronies

A lot like Cheney's 

 Netanyahu's government 

mostly serves the rich

under-funded

Nuclear fusion 

 puts the sun in a bottle 

thirty years from. . .when?

values

The Crash had deep roots 

 in Reagan's America 

Greed replaced Virtue

revolving door

K-Street lobby firms 

treat Congress as the Farm League 

 They'll hire the winners

mythic echoes

Tales of Theseus 

 echo through The Hunger Games 

 with some Running Man

curse of Midas

Lessig as prophet 

 gold's corrupting influence 

 new Age of Midas

second chance to get it right

The Mandate could fall 

if SCOTUS strikes down "Filburn" 

 SinglePayer's back

cyclic

Big Pharma is dead 

 M&A has run its course 

 an Age of Start-ups

Activist

Nino Scalia 

upholds Stare Decisis 

 when he feels like it

kinky

Stare Decisis 

 binds Antonin Scalia 

 when he's in the mood

Ho-Hum

Bashar al-Assad

survived one more assasin 
 hired one more double

Potemkin

Bashar al-Assad

buses in his own people

to proclaim their love

K.I.S.S.

Stick with the MEEL plan 

More Exercise (and) Eat Less 

out-performs gimmicks

clamentis

Andrew Basevich 

warned of Bush's adventures

 vox in deserto

bought a guitar to punish your ma...

Modernist rebels 

 against Romanticism 

 embraced dissonance

Sharon's arithmetic

Oppressing Chechens 

Putin made more terrorists 

 than Russia can kill

required reading

Vladimir Putin 

\ tells Russians what they should read 

 and what to believe