falsified!

despite Dollo's Law
hummingbirds detect sugars
jury-rigged tastebuds

incarnate

rough gig for a  mind
conjured for a brain's purpose
conscious it must die

under pressure

pity the pundit!
when he has nothing to say
still has to publish

ruse Russe

green trucks painted white
don't fool the Ukrainians
they're still RedArmy

bootless

debating John Searle
proves intelligence is rare
not impossible

grandstanding

Putin proposes
humanitarian aid
for Ferguson's Blacks

Art doesn't have to be pretty

Ari Shavit's book
living with ambivalence
this world's for wrestlers

snark

Putin offers aid
to Ferguson's oppressed Blacks
the thug scores cheap points

slippery slope

positive feedback
methane freed from permafrost
cranks up the greenhouse

solid!

Kepler's conjecture
took over 400 years
to stack oranges

our monster

the junta we backed
kills Egyptians who speak out
systematically

let Jesus in!

governor Parry

spends billions on border walls

driving food-costs up

bogeyman

ironic covers
of Hamas' battle hymns
rock Jewish weddings

positive feedback

clathrates of methane
belched out as permafrost thaws
hockeystick-shaped curve

good end II

naught in his career
became him like...leaving it
Maliki bowed out

unterminated

retrojected meme
Kurzweil's singularity
dreamed up by SkyNet

good end

"Nothing in his life
became him like...leaving it"
al-Maliki's out!

the price of everything and the value of nothing

capitalism
subsumes all opposition

monetize dissent!

of tone and meter

God fuckin' damnit!
Mamet's coarse common parlance
works in haiku, too

peak experience

pic du tour Eiffel
a la coucher du soleil
la vie, c'est tres bon

entartete kunst

Art in a great arc
from Raphael to Paul Klee
as our vision fades

projecting

surrealism
dreams projected on canvas
escape from nightmare

the price of everything

consumerism
buying Banksy in London
so much irony!

progress

silly fairytales
yet our civilization
arose from that muck

strait-laced

kids playing soccer
in trousers, collars and ties
terribly British

surplus

Egypt's ruling class
lived the good life of leisure
they could play board-games

myopic

use the Parthenon
as an ammunition dump?
Sure! what could go wrong?

top-down

culture flourishes
under imperialism
(so teaches the Queen)

resistance is futile

consumerism
engulfs all opposition
buy Banksy T-shirts!

the signal's in the contrast

whiplash reaction
switchback hike through mossy glen
high and dry tonight

high-stakes

the Etzion Four

hell-bent on Utopia

risked Armaggedon

select tools

unlike other chimps
build for sperm competition
we're ornamental

slam the gate

Ted Cruz (immigrant)
opposes immigration
if you aren't White

frisson

to get up for it
Santorum needs the terror
pregancy roulette!

chastened

forty years ago
Richard Nixon shocked the world
bowing to the Law

stunted

archipelago
side-by-side, engrossed in screens
each teen, an island

Joab

Hariri Jr
leaves his father unavenged
too nice for this league

stunting

archipelago
although they're in the same room
each teen, an island

armed

one foot of fish, splice
on five feet of cattle prod
wrong eel for sushi

release

sends the mind reeling
voluptuous sensation
massage on acid

coward

president Hollande
arms terrorists in Ukraine
cash before honneur

Statist

New York's Police force
treats citizens like subjects
tools of oppression

priorities

sexual frenzy
eclipses rational thought
Darwin knows what counts

RedQueen's race II

378
stirrups doomed massed infantry
Adrianople

claims

Occupied WestBank
"we've got your Land. Talk to us"
kidnappers' logic

oops

shared old-men's table
white guy fumbles his dim sum
everybody laughs

Durin Kadmon II

only Bombadil
knew Durin beneath the stars
ere the first sun rose

balance

Tacitus (wryly):
"we used to suffer from crimes
but now, it's from Laws"

raw

more "Hobbes" than "Rousseau"
Will Golding's "Lord of the Flies"
knew we're not angels

fallacy

despite John Searle's noise
hives display intelligence
that bees don't possess

RedQueen's race

Artemisinin's
losing its effectiveness
in SouthEast Asia

Durin Kadmon

Durin walked alone
in a world as yet half-formed
moonless, ungendered

unnatural

responding to Hobbes
Rousseau's edenic vision
belies Man's nature

institutionalized ignorance

Sex Education
starts at five in Canada
why choose ignorance?

action, reaction

air gets turbulent
punching through each isotherm
you might get hit back

maturity

with more expertise
simplifying assumptions
save actual thought

emergent

Searle fails to address
the hive's more intelligent
than component bees

heavy shit

Jim Bridger's dragline
leaves its own trail paved in slate
from yesterday's shale

myopic

focused on her wants
unable to see others'
kept a lot of cats

initiative

Stanislav Petrov
didn't launch the Third World War
quite against orders

sharing

weaving manically
as if all lanes weren't slow
spreads the stress around

such an honor!

weird Al's parodies
tell the world that you've arrived
as a pop icon

above the law III

embezzling IP
Keith 'Alexander rubs it
in Obama's face

collaborateurs

the French pay ransom
insouciant of consequence
al-Qaeda's bankroll

mode-switch

positive feedback

permafrost belches methane

runaway greenhouse

Interface

slow HeadsUp displays
evoke a bad acid trip
nauseatingly

above the Law

Keith Alexander
flouts the Espionage Act
embezzling IP

skewed

despite justice Holmes
"evidence of animus"
pervades recent law

you can't win

Why can't I sleep in
and still get to work by eight?
fuck the SecondLaw!

worse than no data

Slide's RAWS station's fucked
standing on site while it lied
cured me of belief

utility function II

the rest are markers
in Darwin's economics
it's the sex that counts

utility function

sexual frenzy
eclipses rational thought
Darwin knows what counts