Bubble

Dow hits 14K 

 as our GNP contracts 

Geithner's house of cards

Wall Street's man

Decoupling Wall Street 

 from U.S. Economy

  Geithner's sleight of hand

think!

waking in the dark 

 who's breath syncopates my own? 

 I should know her name

arcane quest

turbulence and sink 

 often mark the edge of lift 

 Do you feel lucky?

popinjay

Gingrich struts the stage 

 as vain as a courtesan

 talking up her wares

wasted breath, wasted time

Some teachers conflate 

 naming things with explaining 

 no One's the wiser

Rule of Law, not of Men

Don't give Obama 

 powers Cheney would abuse 

 evil precedent

unprincipled

Political hacks 

 tolerate in Obama 

 most of Cheney's sins

hacks

Bogus scientists 

 still cling to hypotheses 

 that they've disproven

beyond fear

Joe McCarthy's ghost 

 can't frighten us forever 

 young voters swing Left

CIA amok

Way more than Hagel's 

the Brennan nomination 

 deserves scrutiny

free

Once you've known thermals 

 the concept of "powered flight" 

 oxymoronic

that "vision thing"

The Greater Jihad 

 always an internal fight 

 against war-mongers

an ill wind

Dick Cheney's fortune 

 burgeoned in our Recession 

 the Big Banks' best friend

clingy

Letting go's so hard 

 transition-state analogues 

 get stuck on enzymes

perfection

Professor Knowles taught 

 good enzymes have to let go 

 as fast as they bind

plutocrat II

Cheney's legacy 

as the nation's wages fell 

 the Rich got riches

plutocrat

Cheney's legacy 

as the nation's wages fell 

 the Rich got riches

perspective

Andrew Bacevich 

 rains on the hero's parade 

 no one won Iraq

new bubble

Dow hits 14k
as our GNP contracts
Geithner's house of cards

the place to be seen

three million dollars
buys a tour of Luxembourg
as Ambassador

we tell them our lies, they tell us theirs...

Hitler and Stalin
talked peace while preparing war
practiced diplomats

not tall enough

Governor Patrick
failed to appoint Barney Frank
patronage bullshit

Wild wild East

Chinese hack the Times
WhiteHats step into the light
CyberWar heats up

shocked!

Hezbollah convoy
explodes outside Damascus
no one wonders why

Liberty, lost

Civil Rights wither
National Security
cut off the daylight