values

His life's in shambles 

Edwards upholds core values 

 every hair's in place

crocodile tears

Murdoch's contrition 

 should earn an Emmy award 

 and a prison term

May day! May day!

Haymarket riots 

challenged wealth disparities 

 for this, we got shot

warm spit

To repress TR 

 they made him vice-president 

 little did they dream. . .

a traitor's weapon

Rupert Murdoch's rags 

 embarrassed both high and low 

 and--at last--their boss

gotta get out more

New York Times pundits 

 convinced by their own echoes 

think they're great sages

cui bono?

Somali pirates 

 on trial in U.S. Courts 

 enjoy room and board

values

Romney's core belief

 "Magic Capitalism"

Human Rights be damned

National self-determination

forty-four million

 Pashtun deserve their own state

 no less than the Kurds

reflexive

Crass politicians 

 legislating religion 

 make it odious

old denizen in a young lake

Norwegian lake-beds 

 host a new kingdom of life 

older than the hills

cowardice

Murdoch, on the stand 

 offers to sell out his friends 

pathetic monster

Tacomatose

Galloping Gertie 

 made Tacoma exciting 

briefly, long ago

separate accounts

It's not fungible 

Social Security floats 

 on its own bottom

subject to falsification

Physicists ponder 

 would antimatter fall up 

 against gravity?

naive

Jason's trophy bride 

 pushed out his exotic wife 

 she took it badly

human touch

Carl Jung's acolytes

 more doctrinaire than the Man 

 came off as crazy

playing field

For economists 

 incentives ARE the system 

laws just set the bounds

fade to grey

Thomas L. Friedman 

\ once, a brilliant journalist 

now, a dim pundit

now you see the violence inherent in the system

Oppression's normal 

 it's only called Class Warfare 

when we resist it

low-speed saw

Headward erosion 

 saws mountain ranges in two 

through the layer cake

not the outgoing type

Lactating tortoise 

 a woman in a burqa 

 takes her house with her

insider

Loyal to his own 

 crony capitalism 

enriched Dubya's pals

revenuers

Lucrative vices 

 nicotine and opium 

paid Britain's empire

comprehensive

Tolkien's trilogy 

 written over a lifetime 

 encompassed a world

self-absorbed

French navel-gazing 

cedes the field to Germany 

Europe as Fourth Reich

a man with a past

Callista Gingrich 

 prays her man has settled down 

as the hormones ebbs

inauspicious

The heavens themselves 

 blaze forth the death of princes 

 Kim's rocket's a dud

zipped lip good...

SecretService men

tight-lipped but incontinent

can't keep their flies zipped

old school

Who needs Monsanto? 

 paleonicotinoids 

 protect tobacco

coming of age

Young Odysseus 

 mingled blood with his first boar 

 powerful Mojo

the field's never level

For economists 

 incentives ARE the system 

 laws just set the bounds

the incentives ARE the system

To build our future 

Paul Krugman's Transaction Fee 

 reshapes incentives

only three bargains in healthcare

More than medicines 

to stop the cholera deaths 

 Haiti needs sewers

unmet needs

With Santorum gone 

 who'll supply LateNite with jokes? 

Romney's not funny

can't fake it

real creative leaps

 correlate with alpha waves

soak in a hot tub

balance

A world in balance 

 needs both predators and  prey 

 someone must eat meat

frangar, non flectar

Coriolanus 

 disdained to play to the crowd 

 unbending, he broke