what good's a half?

Thomas L. Friedman 

fancies himself a great wit

half right, once again

there is none so blind III

John Searle's fallacy 

 makes AI impossible 

 over-rates the mind

there is none so blind II

Professor John Searle 

doesn't know what a mind is 

and pooh-poohs machines

there is none so blind

John Searle's acolytes 

swear AI's impossible 

 don't know what minds are

splurt

Enceladus spews 

 briny plumes into its sky 

 ET's Xanadu

none dare call it treason

Do-nothing Congress 

 bets it can beat Obama 

 by making life worse

Tantawi

Mubarak's poodle 

hijacked the revolution 

Egypt's still seething

solstice

This mid-Summer's night 

 coincides with the new moon 

sweet balmy darkness

loser

Candidate Romney 

runs against his own record 

tough competition

leftovers, again?

Incoherant hash 

 written by a committee 

 "Prometheus" : FAIL

pact of blood

Russian armaments 

 prop up Bashar al-Assad 

friend of the Devil

silenced

Neither Party cares 

 America's Middle Class 

weren't big donors

darkness at noon II

 like Summer blizzards 

haboobs maim or kill drivers 

 blotting out the sun /

darkness at noon

treat them like blizzards 

 haboobs maim and kill drivers 

blotting out the sun / 

regressive

Mitt  Romney's vision/

evokes William McKinley's

an new gilded aged

blocked

Post-modern novel 

about why he cannot write 

 recursive fiction

uncredited

Rival hominids 

 decorated Spanish caves 

 ambiguously

shorthand

The squeak of bedsprings 

 tells the movie audience 

 what they're not seeing

blame

David Brooks opines 

 people should blame Obama 

 for Merkel's failings

'chute alors!

Golden parachutes 

 Serve execs as belay points 

in case of a fall

flanking

Nixon in China

 went where Democrats couldn't/

partisan GO game

sleight of hand

Tallying free states 

 Massachusetts counted twice 

 half, we now call "Maine"

above the law

Obama's kill-list 

so unconstitutional 

Nixon would be proud

efficiency

Rolling resistance 

 tends towards zero on steel rails 

rubber tires cost fuel

sandcastles

Israeli settlers 

creating facts on the ground 

 thought they're making laws

slippery characters

Lepidopterans 

don't stick to spiders' webs or 

 frogs' prehensile tongues

conflict of interest II

Fiscal policies

set by bankers, for bankers
fuck everyone else

conflict of interest

Fiscal policy 

 bankers take care of their own 

 not depositors

floating it

What defines a "boat"? 

 it's a hole in the water 

 you throw money in

polarization

Professor Stiglitz 

knows why the rich wield power 

 radix malorum

disregulated

Without Glass-Steagel 

 FDIC insurance 

 guarantees gambling

the curse

North Dakotan oil 

 eclipsed Alaska's output 

 expect corruption

incentive structure

Plagued with specialists 

 primary-care physicians 

 won't outlive their loans

outta here

"I don't give a Damn" 

 Clark Gable's finest moment 

immortal "bye line"

in the long run, we're all dead

Ireland's housing glut 

 could persist for centuries 

it's built out of stone

quid pro quo

Plants know the old game 

A fruit's a sugary bribe 

for  their seeds'  airfare

artless

Incoherant hash 

 written by a committee 

 "Prometheus" : FAIL

class warrior

Neal Stephenson's prose
keener than a Vorpel blade
skewers the Midwest

soul-crushing

trustifarians
burdened with family wealth
grow bent and twisted

something new

Wasatch front intro
ass-kicking high-pressure gnar
suitably chastened

potential/realization

fucking impressive!
the force is strong in this one!
Ryan Voight learned young

everywhere/nowhere

don't believe in God?
even in Salt Lake City
you are not alone

nadir

Dominique Strauss Kahn
brings disrepute on bankers
yeah, he's that creepy

constraints

Haiku are tricky
you start to craft a poem
but then run out of

Memorial Weekend

snowy May weekend
Chileans think it's normal
we know it's fucked up

still?

Barry's shoulders slump
dejected by the day's news
Cheney's still not dead

let him deny it

transplanted organs
from sacrificial virgins
forestall Cheney's death

backyard

in the Philippines
China's new Monroe Doctrine
shuts the U.S. out

incredible

Times are desperate
the National Bank of Dad
seeks collateral

wide stance

in the airport stall
senator Craig looked for love
all the wrong places

2-D

Stephenson's REAMDE
artfully drawn characters
serve no deeper theme

loving it

souls exult as one
rhythmic thrusts, hammering hearts
rowing regatta

non-verbal

Harry Potter's hair
expressed what the boy could not
indominable

try a wooden stake

Assad's delusion
that the Syrians love him
can't be pierced by facts

can't bail out a seive

before the merger
Merrill hid trading losses
Due Diligence failed

how'd he know that?

for soaring raptors
paratympanic organs
may be varios