2012-06-21

what good's a half?


Thomas L. Friedman 
fancies himself a great wit
half right, once again

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there is none so blind III


John Searle's fallacy 
 makes AI impossible 
 over-rates the mind

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there is none so blind II


Professor John Searle 
doesn't know what a mind is 
and pooh-poohs machines

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there is none so blind


John Searle's acolytes 
swear AI's impossible 
 don't know what minds are

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splurt


Enceladus spews 
 briny plumes into its sky 
 ET's Xanadu

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none dare call it treason


Do-nothing Congress 
 bets it can beat Obama 
 by making life worse

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Tantawi


Mubarak's poodle 
hijacked the revolution 
's still seething

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solstice


This mid-Summer's night 
 coincides with the new moon 
sweet balmy darkness

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loser


Candidate  
runs against his own record 
tough competition

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2012-06-18

leftovers, again?


Incoherant hash 
 written by a committee 
 "Prometheus" : FAIL

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pact of blood


Russian armaments 
 prop up Bashar -Assad 
friend of the Devil

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silenced


Neither Party cares 
 America's Middle Class 
weren't big donors

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darkness at noon II


 like Summer blizzards 
haboobs maim or kill drivers 
 blotting out the sun /

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darkness at noon


treat them like blizzards 
 haboobs maim and kill drivers 
blotting out the sun / 

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regressive


Mitt  's vision/
evokes William McKinley's
an new gilded aged

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blocked


Post-modern novel 
about why he cannot write 
 recursive fiction

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uncredited


Rival hominids 
 decorated Spanish caves 
 ambiguously

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shorthand


The squeak of bedsprings 
 tells the movie audience 
 what they're not seeing

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blame


David Brooks opines 
 people should blame Obama 
 for Merkel's failings

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'chute alors!


Golden parachutes 
 Serve execs as belay points 
in case of a fall

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2012-06-12

flanking


Nixon in China
 went where Democrats couldn't/
partisan GO game

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sleight of hand


Tallying free states 
 Massachusetts counted twice 
 half, we now call "Maine"

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above the law


's kill-list 
so unconstitutional 
 would be proud

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efficiency


Rolling resistance 
 tends towards zero on steel rails 
rubber tires cost fuel

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sandcastles


Israeli settlers 
creating facts on the ground 
 thought they're making laws

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slippery characters


Lepidopterans 
don't stick to spiders' webs or 
 frogs' prehensile tongues

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conflict of interest II


Fiscal policies
set by bankers, for bankers
fuck everyone else

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conflict of interest


Fiscal policy 
 bankers take care of their own 
 not depositors

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floating it


What defines a "boat"? 
 it's a hole in the water 
 you throw money in

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polarization


Professor Stiglitz 
knows why the rich wield power 
 radix malorum

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disregulated


Without Glass-Steagel 
 FDIC insurance 
 guarantees gambling

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the curse


North Dakotan oil 
 eclipsed Alaska's output 
 expect corruption

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incentive structure


Plagued with specialists 
 primary-care physicians 
 won't outlive their loans

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outta here


"I don't give a Damn" 
 Clark Gable's finest moment 
immortal "bye line"

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in the long run, we're all dead


Ireland's housing glut 
 could persist for centuries 
it's built out of stone

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quid pro quo


Plants know the old game 
A fruit's a sugary bribe 
for  their seeds'  airfare

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artless


Incoherant hash 
 written by a committee 
 "Prometheus" : FAIL

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2012-06-04

class warrior

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

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soul-crushing

trustifarians
burdened with family wealth
grow bent and twisted

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something new

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

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potential/realization

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

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everywhere/nowhere

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

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nadir

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

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constraints

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

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Memorial Weekend

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

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still?

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

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let him deny it

transplanted organs
from sacrificial virgins
forestall Cheney's death

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backyard

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

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incredible

Times are desperate
the National Bank of Dad
seeks collateral

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wide stance

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

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2-D

Stephenson's REAMDE
artfully drawn characters
serve no deeper theme

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loving it

souls exult as one
rhythmic thrusts, hammering hearts
rowing regatta

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non-verbal

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

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try a wooden stake

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

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can't bail out a seive

before the merger
Merrill hid trading losses
Due Diligence failed

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how'd he know that?

for soaring raptors
paratympanic organs
may be varios

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