2013-09-29

dysfunctional

Ted Cruz doesn't work
ship him back to Canada
ask for a refund

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2013-09-28

blowhard

Ted Cruz's ego
pre-existing condition
disqualifies him

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tiger's whiskers

al-Shabab's new front
terrorism in Kenya
targets Israelis

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punctilious

poorly socialized
the panda eats, shoots and leaves
never tips the staff

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don't look too closely II

don't look too closely
Bo XiLai's far from unique
most princes are worse

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don't look too closely

Beijing wants to claim
Bo XiLai's atypical
(most princes are worse)

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Far Wrong

endorsing Boykin
the FamilyResearchCouncil
came out as bigots

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tacit endorsement

general Boykin
spitting on Muslim's beliefs
kept his commission

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useless

Bacevich rips Brooks
a "pundit" who's always wrong
hasn't earned the name

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be here now

rain pelts the Sukkah
crumbling it back to compost
all is transience

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timeless

atonal music
evokes an eternity
atoning in Hell

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batting clean-up

someone else's mess
Vatican? California?
hire a Jesuit!

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kiss of death

Gingrich's mantle
draped on John Boehner's shoulders
neat burial shroud

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The Family

Luc Besson's homage
to gang movies played for laughs
lets DeNiro shine

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sensational

pope Francis the Great
questions the focus on sex
rather than on Love

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useless

chickenshit congress
leads neither to war nor peace
now we miss Tillman

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narrow

GuildNavigators
peering across galaxies
lost up-close focus

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this is not how it works

Boehner, like Gingrich
hamstringing democracy
dreams of being king

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lame

Boehner's "leadership"
leave the Congress impotent
petty partisans

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retrograde

"we're going forward"
if you believe John Boehner
new term, all reruns

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equity

who bears the burden?
until senators' sons bleed
we'll keep making wars

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teleology

thirsty for meaning
in an absurd universe
we lap up fictions

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trying times

acne-ravished youth
aslosh in novel hormones
fresh face, stale story

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poor risk

nuclear weapons'
potential for accidents
out-weigh all value

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ruminations

take in the gestalt
with synthetic aperture
process at leisure

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visionary


Coleridge maintained
Kubla Khan's a dream-fragment
that just seems crafted

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evocative

floating, disjointed
the dream-fragment quality
resonant haiku

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mirror

my father's gestures
reflected in shop windows
claim to be my own

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unrealistic

Rumsfeld's agenda
like Robert McNamara's
treated men like cogs

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opportunity

retreating sea-ice
promised container ships
will dock at Murmansk

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2013-09-23

used

Cheney's web of lies
entangled Colin Powell
and all who trust him

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you can't win

Szilard's solution
Maxwell's Demon paradox
"Shannon Entropy"

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follow the money

for the Pentagon
Peace posed an imminent threat
their budget could shrink

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field effect

the dead don't suffer
it's just hard on the others
like being stupid

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the horror

worse than merely war
al-Assad's atrocities
target physicians

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Fed chair

since Summers withdrew
"not reopening the search"
means that it's Yellen

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transitional

as camp counselors
discovering adulthood
is part of the job

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fields

James Clerk Maxwell's waves
propagate in no aether
induce each other

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the last war

at Mach2.5
carriers are obsolete
SilkWorms are cheaper

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deserts

al-Assad deserves
all the dignity in death
that Qaddafi earned

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fuzzy

what defines "species"?
when sex is an elective
like prokaryotes

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tidy

gravitational
energies are negative
cosmic sum: zero

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bleeding

Syria's wounded
fill Israeli hospitals
while al-Assad stalls

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disadvantaged

NSA backdoors
make American software
the world's least secure

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leverage

New Jersey foregoes
income tax from GoldmanSachs
Race to the Bottom

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synch

strange entanglement
 hundreds of movie-goers
synch up in the dark

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small world

entangled airports
dengue's back in Florida
wormholes for disease

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failsafe

von Hippel/Lindau
the archetypal deadman switch
monitors O2

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can't have that!

Allende's Chile
implements democracy
so we have him killed

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donc, je suis

Descartes spawned Wheeler
only observers exist
gazing at themselves

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loopy

backward causation
permits John Wheeler's cosmos
to sprout from his mind

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the shoulders of giants

Stork/Eschenmoser
sketched out steroid synthesis
Johnson made it so

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sinat chinam

Corporations' tool
Mossadegh and Allende
never threatened us

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Monroe Doctrine

Castro's defiance
of U.S. hegemony
provoked Bay of Pigs

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bargaining chip

Syrian admit
they have chemical weapons
tactical candor

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great minds

Leibnitz and Newton
contested priority
inconclusively

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mayor of the 1%

Bloomberg's trickle-down
prettified New York City
rose-tinted with blood

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myopic

dim electorate
over-focused on gun rights
lost sight of the rest

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2013-09-17

lord of all he surveys

vigilant, stock-still 
the eagle peers from his blind 
hanging from the sky 

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2013-09-16

innumerate

Reagan never grasped
the plural of "anecdote"
still isn't "data"

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non-correlation

a hundred million
diabetics in China
can't blame McDonald's

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pre-conditions

'til al-Assad's gone
Kerry can't claim victory
what's left to discuss?

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enlightenment

Baruch Spinoza
herald of modernity
made God redundant

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deadman switch

von-Hippel/Lindau
starts hypoxia response
just by building up

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honor among thieves

Yahoo and FaceBook
outraged to be called "evil"
sue the NSA

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universal condiment

minced in vinegar
Miura peppers' best use
weapons-grade relish

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a pillar of smoke by day...

pyrocumulus
darkens half the horizon
Diablo's on fire

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not dead yet

fleeing Sanhedrin
there's still lift on Windy Ridge
sweet validation

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placebo

religions' tenets
illusion of certainty
make death easier?

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regressive

subsidized sugar
made peons from freeholders
"feudalization"

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2013-09-12

ezer k'negdo

lady Astor snarled
"I would poison your coffee"
he quipped "I'd drink it"

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necessary

to explain carbon
Hoyle invoked excited states
hitherto unseen

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unforgiving

for lack of steel tools
buffalo make lion rugs
like Wiener Schnitzel

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reformist

carved out of a swamp
Peter the Great's capital
"window on the West"

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futile gesture

the Paiutes' GhostDance
spread far like a prairie fire
leaving just ashes

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history's judgment

Teddy Roosevelt
bid for immortality
funding mt. Rushmore

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lottery

I taste cilantro
but am blind to truffles' charms
raw genetic deal

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degrees of freedom II

Pauli exclusion
only constrains Fermions
Bosons can condense

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degrees of freedom

Pauli exclusion
only constrains Fermions
they're incoherent

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for the worse

Pixies without Kim
just leave you with Black Francis
and he still can't sing

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unprincipled

Cheney's company
drills for oil on the Golan
profits trump prophets

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unintended

under Prop. 13
immortal corporations
pay Ford-era tax

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choices, choices

Chinese grocery:
half the things "increase vigor"
the others taste good

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make it fit

strings evolve to 'branes
a "theory of everything"
needs more dimension

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integration without integrity

wedding "it" to "bit"
MicroSoft bought Nokia
Evil, incarnate

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don't ask for what won't work

the Powell Doctrine
precludes the limited strikes
that Kerry asked for

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loss

the Ninth Circuit Court
ruled against Drake's Oyster Farm
Wilderness purists

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no deal

the Arab League's gift
balking at Syria strikes
lets us off the hook

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death-ray

Archimedes knew
how to kindle Persian ships
with concave mirrors

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2013-09-11

visionary

Fritz Lang's grand opus
terrified Americans
specter of Class War

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parody

proper ovesight
begins with ousting DiFi
from "Intelligence"

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boon

a glut of lobster
now that we've wiped out the cod
scuttles towards market

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dumb

Dubya crowed "crusade!"
Saudis and Iranians
ditched the alliance

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gaffe

Obama's "red line"
dumbest move of his decade
gave Assad control

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2013-09-09

autonomy

Obama's "red line"
dumbest move of his decade
gave Assad control

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out-gamed

Neoptolemus
suffered a fate worse than death
he got deified

quality control

each microsaccade
toss out all the bad pixels
call the rest "data"

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uncertainty

John Wanamaker
knew half his ads were wasted
but just not which half

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regulatory capture IV

who oversees whom?
Feinstein trusts the NSA
more than her voters

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starting conditions

virtual photons
inflationary cosmos
presto! lumpiness

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improvised

to aid Allenby
Lawrence blew up Ottomans
(and sofas, and chairs)

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cancel the apocalypse

Hutton glimpsed DeepTime
no vestige of Beginning
no prospect of End

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