blinkered

Rumsfeld's and Cheney's
ontological closure
blinded them to doubt

appropriate technology

traumatic first step
eels don't like getting filleted
that's what the nail's for

Christos

seal of approval
Isaiah called king Cyrus
"God's anointed One"

sporting

a tough audience
eels don't like getting filleted
the way I did it

projections

if sex isn't fun
it's not  because God's displeased
you're doing it wrong

strange bedfellows

Mujahedeen Kalq's
second-hand propaganda
serves Netanyahu

used II

CIA patsies
buy-through Mujahedeen Kalq--
Mossad's agenda

used

Mujahedeen Kalq
peddle Mossad's artful lies
to our CIA

indigestible

making gas cheaper
sugar-free GummiBerren
frack your GI tract

if you're so rich, how come you're not smart?

Hebert Clarke Hoover
first millionaire president
beggared the nation

oh, grow up!

until puberty
scatalogical humor
stands in for sex jokes

lay-away plan

Haliburton's plan
of deferred compensation
keeps Congress at heel

canted

justice Scalia
champions Freedom of Speech
in the Right's causes

speculative

professor Shiller
knows stock bubbles' refrain line
"this time is different"

joystick nation

much more convenient
instead of having real fun
there's the computer

blitzed

deprived of feed-back
in a bar too loud to hear
I can't think clearly

second-hand

Mujihadeen Kalq
sell Mossad propaganda
to our CIA

form and substance

for a scientist
"he's real good at PowerPoint"
damning with faint praise

listening-challenged

Wheeler's  compliant
to pressure from Telecoms
but shows us comtempt

bhai pujah?

new Spring ritual
rivers of painted bodies
spill out of the Greek

showy II

Tesla's showmanship
alienated savants
mais la canaille l'aime

"altruism"

J.B.S.Haldane
would have died for two brothers
or for eight cousins

promises, promises

Nicola Tesla
pioneer of vapor-ware
PowerPoint's patron

demostrable

science wannabes
revel in smoke and mirrors
rather than insight

idiom

Tesla's showmanship
alienated savants
la canaille loved it

technosterone?

Tesla/Edison
where two such egos collide
there's more heat than light

showy

Nicola Tesla
courted fame flamboyantly
not too damned classy

Hi there!

Norwegian hikers
disambiguate status
by their choice of hats

now you see the violence inherent in the system!

Steve Jobs, Mastermind
kept techworkers' wages down
that's called "collusion"

dark ages

'til they had whale-oil
Scots used storm petrels as lamps
it pretty much stank

Die Nasty

as Christie stumbles
a party in disarray
flirts with Bush III

dumb

for Boehner's backers
economic ignorance
says he's one of them

kick me

Since Sarah Palin
Bundy's the first world-class clown
comics can savage

progress?

"I am become Death"
Oppenheimer mused darkly
"Destroyer of worlds"

perspective

Sarah Palin's head's
lodged so far up her own ass
she "can see Russia"

addled

Putin's agression
seems driven more by hormones
than economics

forward

Justice John Stevens
calls for a new Amendment
"money is not speech"

conditions are extremely primitive

in parts of the West
recreational bar-fights
minhag hamakom

variations on a theme

ancestral mammals
dreamed of being wolverines
gazelles came later

sectarian

Narendra Modi

re-opens Partition's wounds

this doesn't end well

crocodile tears

Putin celebrates /

defeating Hitler's land-grabs /

seizes Crimea

uplifting

I'm more tolerant
when turbulence comes with lift
and when I'm not low

illogical

sunk-cost fallacy
kept Johnson in Vietnam
Nixon rode that horse

gas attack II

indigestible
sugar-free Gummi Berren
frack one's GI tract

gas attack

Haribo grenades
sugar-free Gummi Berren
frack one's GI tract

gold-digger

Love is all you need
but for Don Sterling's girlfriend
the billions are nice

yeah, and I'm the queen of England

Don Sterling's girlfriend
says she's a "philanthropist"
I'm calling "bullshit"

destruction

Kant's "league of nations"
foresaw that--rationally--
war's good for nothing

taken roughly

AstraZeneca's
chemists buff their resumés
they're getting Pfizered

cooking the books

Jeremy Bentham
kept accounts of suffering
against benefits

just a business

Pfizer's strategy:
M&A trumps R&D
all tax, no science

coward

John Kerry recants
critique of Netanyahu
flippity flopper!

ergo sum

grounding paradox:
'though my life's improbable
yet I'm writing this

transcultural

sir Christopher Wren's
steel chain zeroed the splay force
St. Paul's dome as yurt

piggy

picking out the nuts
Putin wolfs the Crimea
but leaves Chernobyl

Bullshit walks

money talks, court says
a blow to democracy
deeply corrupting

Basel

so tidy! so quaint!
deliciously ironic
birthplace of Acid

non potestis servire et mammonae et dei

AIPAC litmus test
conservatives court Sheldon
kneel before Zion

masterful

Steve Jobs, Mastermind
kept tech-workers' wages down
that's called "collusion"

iron fist

tyrants' illusion 

Tito's Yugoslavia 

kept "peace" at gunpoint