2012-02-29

weiss band

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

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free press


Thirteen Syrians 
 smuggling out a journalist 
 martyred to the Cause

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not concerned with the very poor


Mitt Romney's ethos 
"The Devil take the hindmost "
 smacks of Amalek

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moved on


Mitt Romney's home state 
 seems unimpressed with the man 
 who left long ago

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apres moi


History teaches 
 vast income disparities 
 spur revolutions

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candor


We call it a "gaffe" 
 When a politician blurts 
 what he really thinks

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old-time values


Santorum's fan-base 
 resents the Enlightenment, 
 clings to old untruths

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reach out and touch someone


Out of the aether 
 haiku about this and that 
 random connection

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sickenng


Even in this field 
 Santorum makes voters gag 
 they crave more than froth

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firstborn


Babushka warned her 
 the first blini always stick 
she meant her firstborn

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2012-02-27

timeless

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

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owned!

Potro schooled Kurtis
landing a Tandem glider
among other things

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this just in!

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

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deflated

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

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actuarial

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

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fringe

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

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all's fair

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

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word!

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

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local lore

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

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forethought

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

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classic

Stephenson explained
Kurtis' time management
POOR IMPULSE CONTROL

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neither fish nor fowl

transition season
Orion and Scorpio
share the Dunlap sky

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apocrypha

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

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shazaam


Sexual tension 
crackles across the dance floor 
 lightning rives the night

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Is this thing on??


Cellphone camcorders 
Orwellian surveillance 
 beyond Stalin's dreams

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keep 'em coming


"Efficiency droop" 
 limits LED output 
 not dissertations

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low S/N


One more conference 
to resolve Somalia's wars 
 drowned out in gunfire

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deflated


Scant basis for pride 
 a shrivelled Y-chromosome 
defines what's manly

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ick factor


A new poll confirms: 
women dislike Santorum, 
want a man who's clean

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martyr


Bradley Manning's leaks 
 helped ignite the Arab Spring 
now, We march for him

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State privilege


Manning's court-martial 
 criminalizing Free Press 
 state-sponsored terror

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power corrupts


Oppenheimer mused 
 "Now I am become Shiva 
 Destroyer of worlds"

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relativism


Third-party cookies 
Google endruns Safari 
 Who's being evil?

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signs and wonders


Super nova blast 
one civilization's end 
star of bethlehem

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gingerbread houses


Paradise for geese 
 straight out of the Brothers Grimm 
 produces foie gras

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customizing perfection


Keep re-centering 
 perfeft circles turned in lift 
 may not be quite round

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sic semper tyrannis


Bashar al-Assad 
earns a special place in Hell
 killing journalists

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2012-02-22

CHANGE this!


Cornered and cranky 
 Democrats mean to be heard 
 prosecute torture!

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nostalgia


On Okinawa 
 steak houses and rootbeer floats 
 remember empire

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still banging the drum for war


Senator McCain 
 calls for aid to Syrians 
 to topple Assad

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archived


Arctic ground-squirrels 
buried seeds in permafrost 
 paleolithic

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before Heller


Blood-stained Orestes 
 princeling of Mycenae's house 
 lived Catch-22

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arms race


Parasitic wasps 
 die a horrifying death 
in tipsy maggots

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fifty years later


No flash in the pan 
 transgenerational rock 
meet The Rolling Stones

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bonding


Food-court therapy 
making faces at toddlers 
 drives stress levels down

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top-down


Peru's ruling class 
 prefer illiterate maids 
polishing egos

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naif


Teens' self-assurance 
unencumbered by wisdom 
 recruiters' fodder

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you think education's expensive?


Old Afghan lament 
 instead of education 
 we were given wars

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death spiral


Fearful investors 
 exacerbate Greece's plight 
 self-reinforcing

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2012-02-20

freeze frame

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

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monstrous

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

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taken for granted

Cornered and cranky 
Democrats mean to be heard 
 prosecute torture!

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2012-02-17

brave new world


Sprawling, ambitious 
 Pynchon's twisted post-war world 
 "Gravity's Rainbow"

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Cumuli


 Clouds shaped like dung-heaps 
sure there must be a pony 
 somewhere around here

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the violence inherent in the system


America's Right 
 believes in the Right to Work 
 for your overlord

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the bridge is out


corrupting Latin
half a dozen different ways
 Europe sagged, and split

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innovation


Original Sin
 framed the need for Salvation
Saint Paul's invention

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