innovation

salting the challah

we salute what is no more

with what's always here

Recession

median income
belies Recovery claims
the trend's still downward

tactical terror

Politics of Fear
gets the voters to the polls
Peace lulls them away

unburdened

Stations of the Cross
rid you of earthly burdens
starting with your purse

the UN's plan

three-way partition
international enclave
Jerusalem's hope

usurped

Obama retreats
big Insurance Companies
write new rules for us

on the deep

no annotation
clarifies the waka chart
cogniscienti know

libel

the old Lie Machine
that smeared Gere and Aristide
now impugns Snowden

patience

type-A barbeque
gets impatient, turns it up
grumbles that it's dry

phasing

normalizing phase
Greenwich Observatory
gotta start somewhere

rationalized

Sanford, Florida
criminalized Trayvon's corpse
compounding outrage

form

inside Washington
politics, not policy
dictates what gets done

astroturf

"Remember the Maine!"
to get into the GreatGame
we rode the BigLie

omenous

Lot's sons-in-law laugh
like Penelope's suitors
just before they're killed

dark

sure as Heisenberg
implacable horizon
hides half the cosmos

blink

vast lower eyelid
the advancing horizon
clips off the daylight

hearts and minds

the old Lie Machine
that smeared Gere and Aristide
now impugns Snowden

outrageous

hurling a foot-stool
Antinoos sealed his doom
an outrage to Zeus

fugue

"The Night in Question"
Ginsburg braids three tales in one
sex, drugs and murder

eloquent

new category
Robert Redford's "All is Lost"
best silent movie

Scurrilous V

secret surveillance
shows Clapper raping boy scouts
let him deny it

scurrilous IV

shocking photographs
show director James Clapper
slurping santorum

scurrilous III

scurrilous rumors
impugn Clapper's character
hey...he started it

scurrilous II

unfounded rumors
damn Clapper sure as Snowden
two can play that game

pipedream

no less than Santa
Plato's philosopher king
mere mythology

scurrilous

anonymous source
confirms Keith Alexander
mutilates puppies

fishnets?

Hermes was unfazed
bondage with Aphrodite
sounded hot to him

frothy II

twitter's IPO
without a revenue stream
dare one say "bubble"?

frothy

twitter's IPO
without a revenue stream
hope springs eternal

phat times

FDA ruling
against trans-fats in our food
phat times for palm nuts

wizened

haughty Tythonis
still lies beside bright Eos
never to get up

entrenched

Hillary Clinton
leapt to defend Mubarak
from the Arab Spring

blameless

NSA fishing
for dirt to neuter Frank Church
found the man's a saint

privilege

Gavin Newsom pitched
waterfront development
for the OnePercent

mole

corrupt as Grima
poisoning Theoden's dreams
Feinstein serves the spies

constituency

Bloomberg's legacy
Mayor of the OnePercent
lost the MiddleClass

hand-in-hand

while he's been mayor
Bloomberg's wealth increased eight-fold
canny investment

hello?

Why are we alone?
the silence is deafening
for SETI (so far)

promised

Once he'd been offered
Yitzhak couldn't leave the Land
bound to the altar

karma

bold Atreides
paid his father's karmic debt
butchered like an ox

wild

ornate nudibranchs
gills flow in the ebbing tide
wee Farah Fawcetts

here, now

against entropy
all victories are local
in time, as in space

pimping

sociopaths climb
in the game someone else built
by tearing it down

Mentor

Athena goads him
Orestes is a model
for Telemachos

End Times

Ted Cruz hears voice
saying he's the ChosenOne
Apocalypse Now!

machines

we're no less special
for being material
soul's superfluous

Luddite

professor John Searle
chose Butlerian Jihad
counter to Turing

our man

patron of horrors
first the Shan, then Pinochet
this year, al-Sisi

qui bono?

protecting profits
for Insurance Companies
corrupts our HealthCare

Hobbes

rejecting Rousseau
TeaParty nihilism
tears at the Contract

the incentives are the structure

by the rules, you lose
always choosing violence
Ender saw a way

low fidelity

cancer's sixth hallmark
potentiating the rest
instability

standards

Somali pirates
shun Brittany Spears' music
even thugs have taste

Hobbesian

polio is back
Syria as a failed state
should concern the world

oops

Franklin got it wrong
electrons are tangible
"current" flows backwards

yin/yang

Jacob and Esau
Gilgamesh and Enkidu
complementary?

radix malorum

real democracy
can't exist with pay-to-play
money's the problem

obstruction

if one's core message
is that government's evil
sedition beckons

NSA asset

to emasculate
reform, senator Feinstein
wants to head the probe

kal v'chomer

suicide bombing
situational ethics
open Ender's game

division of labor

each does what she can
fruits pay airfare in sugars
for seed dispersal

libertarian

Hobbesian Nature
in Ridley Scott's "Counselor"
makes a case for cops

freed

flesh-eating turtles
usher one out of this life
at Veranasi

perverse

negotiating
for the fate of hostages
incents kidnapping

liability

NSA asset
inside the U.S. senate
works to kill reform

classic

Enkidu reckoned
copulating with his fist
cheaper than harlots

influence

only Occupy
moved the campaign battlefield
off the deficit

co-opted

Speak truth to power!
Keller gagged Eric Lichtblau
to buy Cheney's love

cynical ogress

NSA's puppet
hopes to siphon votes away
from urgent reform

miasma

thick brown inversion
naps Pasadena's terrain
like lentil puree

passe

LEDs eclipsed
the compact fluorescent bulb's
brief day in the sun

validated

Peter Higgs survived
long enough for someone else
to find  his boson

wave of the future

as water grows scarce
the "wheat that would grow in Hell"
cedes ground to sorghum

integrity

a man of vision
Ed Snowden for president!
in twenty twenty

hobbled

NSA backdoors
make the U.S. the worst place
for innovators

blue moon

last time the RedSox
won the WorldSeries at home
Babe Ruth was pitching

why?

Darwin should us "how"
and absurd cosmos leaves you
to wrestle with "why"

indelible imagery

go for the sang-froid
in Ridley Scott's "Counselor"
stay for the catfish

pageant

Freud's first published work
never got the fame he craved
on sex-lives of eels

ch ch ch changes

past the equinox
change itself diminishes
trudging towards solstice

like wow

unless you're brain-dead
the Goldilocks Enigma
ought to provoke awe

consciousness itself

more than computing
intellectual short-cuts
permit consciousness

CIA, redux

our new Pinochet
this time, killing Egyptian
more sins soil our flag

focus

busied in new lives
narcotic effects of time
deaden war's horrors

Malach

I howl to the winds
political Cassandra
Truth needs a salesman

fox in the henhouse

Di Feinstein's masters
told her to head up the probe
then kill it, off-stage

one more CIA backed coup

Mubarak's cronies
restored in the coup we backed
wash the streets in blood

abomination

criminal "justice"
corrupt Pennsylvania judge
locked up kids for cash

linked in

bioconjugates
take a children's game of tag
to whole new levels

the resource at hand

English chirugeons
learned Irish anatomy
from bodies they'd hanged

crystalline nonsense

Tycho demolished
Aristotle's "perfect world"
in a comet's wake

new start

the horizon drops
admitting the light of day
Eos blinks again

dual mandate

let commoners starve!
inflation scares creditors
more than recession

vox clamentis in deserto

since Galileo's
the Jesuits' boldest voice
may be the new pope's

recognition

my dad's expressions
mirrored in the shop window
play on my own face

Umma

Afghan mujaheed
shared polio with his friends
with allies like these...

malady

Einstein recognized
"America's worst disease"
was racial bias

plus ca change...

a host of cancers
share an etiology
in sundry tissues

search object

brain-cells in primates
devoted to seeing snakes
light up on mushrooms

qui bono?

we deserve better
best congress money can buy
doesn't work for me

coward

Bill Keller's a whore
unfit to shine Greenwald's boots
as he licked Cheney's

for what it's worth

"Full Faith and Credit"
political theater?
bitcoin? or Loony?

entrenched

congress steers clear of
oil depletion allowance
welfare for FatCats