2013-11-23

innovation

salting the challah
we salute what is no more
with what's always here

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2013-11-21

Recession

median income
belies Recovery claims
the trend's still downward

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tactical terror

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

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unburdened

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

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the UN's plan

three-way partition
international enclave
Jerusalem's hope

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usurped

Obama retreats
big Insurance Companies
write new rules for us

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on the deep

no annotation
clarifies the waka chart
cogniscienti know

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libel

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

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patience

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

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phasing

normalizing phase
Greenwich Observatory
gotta start somewhere

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rationalized


Sanford, Florida
criminalized Trayvon's corpse
compounding outrage

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form

inside Washington
politics, not policy
dictates what gets done

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astroturf

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

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omenous

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

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2013-11-19

dark

sure as Heisenberg
implacable horizon
hides half the cosmos

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blink

vast lower eyelid
the advancing horizon
clips off the daylight

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hearts and minds

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

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outrageous

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

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fugue

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

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eloquent

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

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Scurrilous V

secret surveillance
shows Clapper raping boy scouts
let him deny it

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scurrilous IV

shocking photographs
show director James Clapper
slurping santorum

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scurrilous III

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

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scurrilous II

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

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pipedream

no less than Santa
Plato's philosopher king
mere mythology

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scurrilous

anonymous source
confirms Keith Alexander
mutilates puppies

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fishnets?

Hermes was unfazed
bondage with Aphrodite
sounded hot to him

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frothy II

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

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frothy

twitter's IPO
without a revenue stream
hope springs eternal

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phat times

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

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wizened

haughty Tythonis
still lies beside bright Eos
never to get up

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entrenched

Hillary Clinton
leapt to defend Mubarak
from the Arab Spring

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blameless

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

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privilege

Gavin Newsom pitched
waterfront development
for the OnePercent

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mole

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

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constituency

Bloomberg's legacy
Mayor of the OnePercent
lost the MiddleClass

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hand-in-hand

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

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hello?

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

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promised

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

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karma

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

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wild

ornate nudibranchs
gills flow in the ebbing tide
wee Farah Fawcetts

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here, now

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

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pimping

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

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2013-11-15

Mentor

Athena goads him
Orestes is a model
for Telemachos

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End Times

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

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machines

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

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Luddite

professor John Searle
chose Butlerian Jihad
counter to Turing

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our man

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

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qui bono?

protecting profits
for Insurance Companies
corrupts our HealthCare

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Hobbes

rejecting Rousseau
TeaParty nihilism
tears at the Contract

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the incentives are the structure

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

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low fidelity

cancer's sixth hallmark
potentiating the rest
instability

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2013-11-12

standards

Somali pirates
shun Brittany Spears' music
even thugs have taste

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Hobbesian

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

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oops

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

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yin/yang

Jacob and Esau
Gilgamesh and Enkidu
complementary?

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radix malorum

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

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obstruction

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

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NSA asset

to emasculate
reform, senator Feinstein
wants to head the probe

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kal v'chomer

suicide bombing
situational ethics
open Ender's game

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division of labor

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

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libertarian

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

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freed

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

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perverse

negotiating
for the fate of hostages
incents kidnapping

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2013-11-06

liability

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

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classic

Enkidu reckoned
copulating with his fist
cheaper than harlots

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influence

only Occupy
moved the campaign battlefield
off the deficit

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co-opted

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

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cynical ogress

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

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miasma

thick brown inversion
naps Pasadena's terrain
like lentil puree

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passe

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

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validated

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

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wave of the future

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

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integrity

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

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hobbled

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

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blue moon

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

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why?

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

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indelible imagery

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

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pageant

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

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ch ch ch changes

past the equinox
change itself diminishes
trudging towards solstice

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like wow

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

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consciousness itself

more than computing
intellectual short-cuts
permit consciousness

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CIA, redux

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

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focus

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

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Malach

I howl to the winds
political Cassandra
Truth needs a salesman

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fox in the henhouse

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

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one more CIA backed coup

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

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abomination

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

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linked in

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

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the resource at hand

English chirugeons
learned Irish anatomy
from bodies they'd hanged

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crystalline nonsense

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

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new start

the horizon drops
admitting the light of day
Eos blinks again

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dual mandate

let commoners starve!
inflation scares creditors
more than recession

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vox clamentis in deserto

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

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recognition

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

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Umma

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

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malady

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

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plus ca change...

a host of cancers
share an etiology
in sundry tissues

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search object

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

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qui bono?

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

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coward

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

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for what it's worth

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

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entrenched

congress steers clear of
oil depletion allowance
welfare for FatCats

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