oops...better keep that

what was long called "junk"

untranslated DNA

controls what's expressed/

gas bag II

Professor Gingrich 

 whines about partisanship 

Oscar nominee

tick, tock

Waning crescent moon 

counts the regrets of Elul 

 towards Tishrei's new start

Barney Frank remembers

Governor Romney 

 forty-seventh overall 

in job creation

indeterminate

Three-body problem 

 gravitation's like romance 

 still intractable

gas bag

Gridlock's architect 

 whines about partisanship 

 Oscar performance!

public signs

Concrete corruption 

where the road-surface changes 

 Big Man's country home

learning moderation

In Hillary's youth 

 Goldwater's extremism 

seemed more compelling

dupe

Ayn Rand's foolish mom 

nurtured the ungrateful wretch 

without a contract

writing's easy...

Haiku just cost ink 

 sonnets are written in blood 

if they're worth a damn

engage

Wager all your chips 

wondering what might have been 

 taints what could be bliss

do what you can

The future's not real 

 and the past's past your control 

 make your present work

compound

Polygamy's hard 

 multiple mothers-in-law 

 tag-team misery

who's in?

Tax unearned income 

fix Social Security 

 one stroke of a pen

if the shoe fits

Unprovoked haiku 

sometimes appear apropos 

 it's all in your mind

who's interested?

Geithner's policy 

recapitalizing banks 

 screws depositors

owned

All within the law 

Regulatory Capture 

 makes sure nothing's done

collaborator

Each given pixel 

 fish? Cloud? Or water-lily? 

 You complete Monet

truths

"I've been such a fool" 

 a thousand other cliches 

each true, in its time

irreconciliable?

Hashimi's trial 

 relaunched sectarian war 

 as Iraq splinters

Intelligence?

Kayani's assets 

 State-Sponsored  Terrorism 

Haqqani Network

neo-con agenda

Karl Rove's agenda 

 blinded Bush to bin-Laden 

 mired us in Iraq

rainy day

Perennial plants 

 sequester starch in their roots 

 to fuel Spring's new growth

home-field advantage

Edmund Hillary's 

 tanks of compressed "English Air" 

puzzled most Sherpas

extortion

J. Edgar Hoover 

 had the dirt on everyone 

and froliced in it

lashon harah II

pastor Terry Jones

got more Americans killed/

spewing his hate-speech

fascist

Friedman's nostalgia 

 for a strongman in Egypt 

 so condescending!

can we talk?

In this complex world 

 two who never disagree 

can't both be thinking

survival of the fittest

Genghis Khan's gametes 

spewed out across Eurasia 

 bloodline legacy

where's the love?

Pastor Terry Jones 

preaching a gospel of Hate 

 inciting murder

teleology

Einstein sparred with Bohr 

 on ultimate causation 

"God does not play dice!"

lashon harah

Pastor Terry Jones 

 exulting in Free Speech rights 

got our envoy killed

Auerbach

Homeric epic 

 leaves no shadow unexplored 

in perfect syntax

controlling interest

what was long called "junk"
untranslated DNA
controls what's expressed

heft

Chris Christie's image 

overflows the tv screen 

 get a shorter lens

objectivist dystopia

Ayn Rand's selfish creed 

would have each treat his neighbors 

 as foreign nations

our boys

Support our soldiers! 

 Make sure they're where they belong 

 bring them home alive

someone else's problem

Tacit assumption: 

 all wars are fought overseas 

 warps debate at home

rancor

Bibi's status quo

 taught a nation's youth to hate

 unsustainable!

who needs it?

Grim dystopia 

Ayn Rand's argument with God 

 disallows friendship

classy

Toffs in bespoke suits 

 vote that blokes in uniforms 

 die in foreign wars

I do not think that word means what he thinks it means

"Defend and protect" 

 seemed clear 'til Romney flip-flopped 

 "woman's Right to Choose"

strange allure

Poison-oak's terpenes 

 look like flavorants to charm 

 alien palates

uncertainty V

The real Mitt Romney 

 subtle as Schroedinger's cat 

 don't know 'til you ask

Uncertainty IV

Mitt's current values? 

subtle as Schroedinger's cat 

don't know 'til you ask

synthetic bio

Gastric symbiotes 

expressing cellulases 

could feed the hungry

uncertainty III

Mitt's current values? 

 is Schroedinger's cat alive?

 indeterminate

uncertainty II

Romney's core values

 subtle as Schroedinger's cat 

depends who's asking

Nostos II

Dusty caravans 

 limp out of Black Rock City 

 back to the Man's world

betrayed

Downwardly mobile 

too many new graduates 

 live in mom's basement

demographic bomb

ben Gurion deemed

the BlackHats faced extinction

 strategic blunder

uncertainty

Heisenberg taught us 

 can't know where Romney would stand /

once votes were counted

clarity

not merely vicious 

 Cheney brooked no law at all 

a man they called "Vice"

disconnected

Ayn Rand's neurosis 

 can't form human connections 

 world's first "crack baby"

make way!

Trojan satellites 

 sweep riff-raff from our orbit 

 untiring heralds

negative externalities

American coal 

 destroys American wealth 

 subsidized looting

Nostos

Cars caked in playa 

 carrying whimsical toys 

wend home from the Burn

undisciplined

Tailgating, cursing 

 rather than pass on the right 

 left-lane kind of guy

convention blather

Mendacious speeches 

 energized the delegates 

but turned voters off

sterile talk

Do-nothing Congress 

 to make Obama look bad 

castrated itself

interdisciplinary

Signal processing 

 frontier of neuro-science 

 to understand mind

fascist

Friedman's nostalgia 

 for a strongman in Egypt 

shows how Left he ain't