2014-05-21

blinkered

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

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appropriate technology

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

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Christos

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

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sporting

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

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projections

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

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strange bedfellows

Mujahedeen Kalq's
second-hand propaganda
serves Netanyahu

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2014-05-14

used II

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

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used

Mujahedeen Kalq
peddle Mossad's artful lies
to our CIA

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indigestible

making gas cheaper
sugar-free GummiBerren
frack your GI tract

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

Hebert Clarke Hoover
first millionaire president
beggared the nation

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oh, grow up!

until puberty
scatalogical humor
stands in for sex jokes

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lay-away plan

Haliburton's plan
of deferred compensation
keeps Congress at heel

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canted

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

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speculative

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

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joystick nation

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

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blitzed

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

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second-hand

Mujihadeen Kalq
sell Mossad propaganda
to our CIA

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form and substance

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

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listening-challenged

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

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bhai pujah?

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

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showy II

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

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"altruism"

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

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promises, promises

Nicola Tesla
pioneer of vapor-ware
PowerPoint's patron

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demostrable

science wannabes
revel in smoke and mirrors
rather than insight

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idiom

Tesla's showmanship
alienated savants
la canaille loved it

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technosterone?

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

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showy

Nicola Tesla
courted fame flamboyantly
not too damned classy

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Hi there!

Norwegian hikers
disambiguate status
by their choice of hats

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now you see the violence inherent in the system!

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

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dark ages

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

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Die Nasty

as Christie stumbles
a party in disarray
flirts with Bush III

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dumb

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

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kick me

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

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progress?

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

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perspective

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

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addled

Putin's agression
seems driven more by hormones
than economics

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forward

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

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conditions are extremely primitive

in parts of the West
recreational bar-fights
minhag hamakom

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variations on a theme

ancestral mammals
dreamed of being wolverines
gazelles came later

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2014-05-10

sectarian

Narendra Modi
re-opens Partition's wounds
this doesn't end well

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2014-05-09

crocodile tears

Putin celebrates /
defeating Hitler's land-grabs /
seizes Crimea

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2014-05-05

uplifting

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

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illogical

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

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gas attack II

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

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gas attack

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

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gold-digger

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

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yeah, and I'm the queen of England

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

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destruction

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

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taken roughly

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

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cooking the books

Jeremy Bentham
kept accounts of suffering
against benefits

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just a business

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

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coward

John Kerry recants
critique of Netanyahu
flippity flopper!

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ergo sum

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

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transcultural

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

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piggy

picking out the nuts
Putin wolfs the Crimea
but leaves Chernobyl

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Bullshit walks

money talks, court says
a blow to democracy
deeply corrupting

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Basel

so tidy! so quaint!
deliciously ironic
birthplace of Acid

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non potestis servire et mammonae et dei

AIPAC litmus test
conservatives court Sheldon
kneel before Zion

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2014-05-03

masterful

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

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2014-05-01

iron fist

tyrants' illusion 
Tito's Yugoslavia 
kept "peace" at gunpoint

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