2014-11-30

banality

cogs in the machine
prefer not to  understand
that they're the problem

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isolation

no community
adrift in suburbia
desperate housewife

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bootlick

"freedom" for Hegel
meant subjects kept their mouths shut
'cause the king knows best

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money for nothing

Google monetized
the web's aggregate wisdom
content's so passe

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value

Google monetized
emergent web properties
Invisible Hand

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school for scandal

Laban's the mentor
duplicitous, conniving
that Jacob deserved

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do-nothing

"House Speaker Boehner"
squawks but doesn't legislate
he's not "House Doer"

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noise machine

House Speaker Boehner
fulminates impotently
but won't legislate

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in the moment

get 'em while they're hot!
brain-farts cast in haiku form
tweeted to your 'phone

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allegory

Jacob and Esau
reconcile, but live apart
TwoState solution

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blither

Boehner's sophistry
Obama "poisoned the well"
that's been dry for years

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fitting the meter

sonnets for romance
but maybe haiku fit best
to hook-up culture

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fading

old senses grow dim
to entice flagging passions
they slosh perfume on

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what's this thing called, love?

Google search engine
annotating images
won't fool Turing...yet

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layered motives

stealing women's hearts
Darwinian incentive
dressed as poet's muse

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dirty money

under the table
petrodollars lubricate
Qatar's WorldCup bid

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forms that fit

my attention span
suffices to write haiku
sonnets still scare me

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regress

gone without a trace
Lucretius to Spinoza
half a world went dark

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layered

below the surface
sexual innuendo
propels the drama

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participatory

evocative verse
makes art out of dissonance
in the reader's mind

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oppresive

invisible cords
National Security
Letters gag targets

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tell tales

microbiota
swabbed from air passengers' shoes
recount their travels

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dignity

each Jew's tahara
even in wizened old age
"babe, I knew you when!"

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bend over

dr. Huxtable
squirms when he's the subject of
examination

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close society

intimate strangers
mingling sweat, cologne and breath
Tokyo subway car

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National Security Letter

under surveillance
not even free to say we're
under surveillance

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acting out

new Baruch Goldstein
this time murdering rabbis
same old meshugas

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limits

protest, Mong Kok style
lacks Central's civility
Xi may yet send tanks

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dislocation

Pax Vaporizer
hookahs, bongs, pipes and papers
have been disrupted

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modernist

general Sherman
devastated property
economic war

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off-leash

Petraeus' gaffe
fucking his biographer
wasn't in the script

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help! I'm being oppressed!

peaceful protesters
shot by Alameda cops
tradition of grief

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dark ages

like Day One's Great Light
hidden for the Tzaddikim
Lucretius' lore

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong policemen
neither beat nor shoot the crowds
Oakland would fire them

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2014-11-29

attitude

:
too much dignity
would preclude even trying
keep beginner's mind

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2014-11-26

heavy thumb

sword, scales and blindfold
of Justice's attributes
only the first works

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2014-11-25

win win

feuding spam dirtbags
each demolished the other
everybody wins

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epidemiology

cancer in China
epidemic proportions
indicts pollution

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Yama meets Agni, Shiva wins

privatizing coal
India would endorse death
for a whole planet

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what's old is new

Brigham Young students
ask for new revelation
sanctioning whiskers

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topped

Spartans burned with shame
Demosthenes at Olpae
took them from behind

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humbled

Spartans gave it up
Demosthenes at Olpae
took them from behind

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life's too short

time and time again
an hour in the library
saves weeks in the lab

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revolting

the State's spy legions
violating our backdoors
thrust us towards revolt

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we have met the enemy

NSA backdoors
compromise innovator
and--thus--our future

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atomist

a chemist's poet
Lucretius perceived atoms
where others saw gods

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lost decades

in the Reagan years
Japan was buying the world
now, that sun has set

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Chayye Sarah

Rivka emanu
got fed up with Laban's crap
"I'm so outta here!"

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2014-11-22

unaccountable


Ferguson's problem 
officer GoFuckYourself 
still gets to go armed

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power to the People

:
forty years ago 
"Defense of Anarchism"
falsified Hegel

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Seventh Day

Above the Sabbath
rav Kook cited Joshua
to exult the Land

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2014-11-20

well chosen

Homer's epithets
more often filled the meter
than advanced the plot

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the tension is killing

Green Revolution
five years unconsummated
Tabriz-sized blue balls

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born for the role

"Edge of Tomorrow"
should have been a Sean Bean role
endlessly dying

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revisionist

as Mycenae waned
Argos snatched Agamemnon
as their patriarch

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choosing the theater

Athen's triremes
out-flanked Sparta's infantry
asymmetric war

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historiography

in Thucydides
villain portray their baseness
as realism

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association

inexplicably
new nose neurons remember
grandma's kitchen's smells

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getting high

above 13k
supplemental oxygen
buoys the spirits

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haftarah

Bathsheba comments:
Why'd his mom not find a wife
for Abram's heir?

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Defense of Anarchism

as a Reform Jew
onus of commandedness
carries scant water

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teens

this guy's got camels!
Rivka's done with Laban's crap
"I'm so outta here!"

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stretch

casting director
finds he's in over his head
StarWars cantina

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chaque un a son gout

cougars stalk Berkeley
Paris only gets aroused
by prowling tigers

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business

the Mustang's for show
for Ford, it's F150s
that pay the wages

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holiday padding

no easy fixes
turns out, it isn't water
I'm retaining food

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chosen

Rivka illumines
Avram leaving hearth and home
to meet destiny

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peasant food

lean years in Beijing
most of China's finest chefs
fled with Chiang Kai Shek

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petro-states

Saudi oil exports
degrade Putin's leverage
power's fungible

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utility function

smilodon's sabers
so good at dispatching prey
impeded eating

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secrets

all secrets come out
when sister-wives compare notes
and count back nine months

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doppler

fortieth birthday
looms like it should mean something
then fades, in one's dust

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frame of reference

what's "dysfunctional"?
playwrights disdain to agree
each claims to own it

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psychodrama

Oedipal playwrights
can't the leave old score alone
they love their mothers

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all in the family

writing what they know
playwrights vivisect their moms
seven times a week

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lenses

Thucydides saw
economics behind war
Lendon sees honor

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hubris IV

Cleon's ambition
prolonged the war with Sparta
sunk-cost fallacy

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syntax is meaning

channeling Yoda
turning haiku inside out
reveals new meanings

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illiberal education

Sparta's infantry
peerless in obedience
failed to make "Plan B"

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optimized dentition

ambush predators
can deploy heavy weapons
cheetahs can't afford

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vector

microbiota
swabbed from air passengers' shoes
recount their travels

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Chicken

"free-rider" problem
hampers progress on carbon
someone's gotta lead

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tell-trail

back from traveling
exotic microbiomes
still cling to your shoes

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trickled-on

corrupt leaders pay
tax breaks to copronations
out of our pockets

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resilience

Thucydides failed
to defend Amphipolis
but found time to write

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outreach

NASA could save weight
not sending spectrometers
on Mars, ask Chabad

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Nixonesque

Bill Keller's BigLie
wants credit for wiretap scoop
that he had suppressed

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2014-11-19

resilience

"making lemonade"
Thucydides in exile
found time for writing

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2014-11-16

exterminating bandits

beheading Muslims
ISIS provokes new Fatwahs
on barbarism

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ministry of truth

Bill Keller's BigLie
wants credit for wiretap scoop
that he had suppressed

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pidyon shvuyim

when Lot was taken
Abraham reached for his sword
not for his checkbook

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font

what's now Queen's English
the bards neologisms
used to be misspeech

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limited liability

sponsoring "pundits"
planet-wide Copro-nations
tell us to buy shit

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hubris IV

hubris incarnate
Cleon snubbed Sparta's peace-terms
baal makhloket

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hybris III

Cleon's ambition
unslaked at Sphacteria
cost Athens dearly

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complicit

inexplicably
Obama immunized those
who trampled his rights

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validation

stars of the big screen
sweat blood for roles on Broadway
and validation

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lonely world

for bitter old men
FauxNews is entertainment
and companionship

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respectability

stars of the big screen
crave respectability
that Broadway conveys

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hybris II

bellicose Cleon
wanting more than victory
bankrupted Athens

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Hybris

had Pericles lived
Pylos would have won the Peace
but Cleon fought on

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patriarch II

laconic motto:
"penis mightier than sword!"
worked for Genghis Khan

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patriarch

surer than horse-troops
Genghis Khan's Y-chromosome
conquered Eurasia

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misguided

who's the audience?
playing to the film critics
BirdMan lost the rest

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tricky bugger

sly Demosthenes
took the Spartans from behind
those who got home, limped

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extrapolation

discounting fission
Kelvin's YoungEarth precluded
DeepTime for Darwin

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trending

burgeoning health-costs
Mississippi's our future
overweight nation

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ambitious

Ernest Shackleton
skipped out on the First World War
that looked too easy

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big themes

Joseph novella
teshuvah and forgiveness
take three parashot

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conjuror

Shakespeare as wizard
conjured up new words at needs
and worlds on a whim

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belly

the last rays of day
illumine the storm's bottom
landscape of bad dreams

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immoderate

general Powell
made a vice of loyalty
hanging in too long

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short leash

Secretary Chu
named coal "abomination"
until he was gagged

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spontaneous mutation

Brown's the exception
political dynasties
sire mostly Dubyas

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dominoes

Thucydides saw
the fall of Czars in Russia
would echo Corfu

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acidification

oysters grow weak shells
buffering capacity
has been exceded

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clarity

when she faces North
looking in Palin's right ear
"you can see Russia"

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irreconcilable

"mutual contempt"
LBJ and RFK
found no common ground

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what lurks below

on London's efflux
greaseburgs wax fat in sewers
City-wide M.I.

coup

besieged Plataea
remained loyal to Athens
Sparta took it hard

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dark

Götterdämmerung
must look like Spokane, yuletide
freezing fog, starless

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magisteria

sly Odysseus
superlative in metis
buried Achilles

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untapped

BP's exploring
fatburgs lurking 'neath London
should be monetized

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qui bono? II

six big Telecomms
oppose NetNeutrality
and the Public will

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wait for it...



Green Revolution 
five years unconsummated 
Tabriz-sized blue balls

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2014-11-13

wheels of Justice grind slow

An Italian court
took five years to overturn
a six-year sentence

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parochial

American Jews
too often assert "we're White!
but Muslims aren't"

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commentary

the Turkish chorus
speaks non word in ForceMajeur
all comment's tacit

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alone

new low in Date-films
ForceMajeur probes loneliness
in relationships

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footnote

a hundred years hence
annotating my haikus
junk dissertation

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careful excess

salty roast chicken
keeps drinkers eunatremic
at Oktoberfest

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roles about roles

FightClub's dark mirror
probing masculinity
ForceMajeur blows cold

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premium

flying through SaltLake
Americans fill the seats
and flesh slops over

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Trust Busters

tell chairman Wheeler
invoke "Common Carrier!"
Obama says so

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legacy

demographic bind
mitnag'der ashkenazim
don't breed fast enough

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snapshot

days of freezing fog
feathery growths of hoar-frost
quickly lose their charm

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tight fit

flushing a plane's loo
for the very obese risks
evisceration

self-valuation

Thebes and Mycenae
as others past them in rank
deceived assessors

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retrograde

Thebes and Mycenae
dwelt on their glorious pasts
while Argos waxed great

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not strings

Bibi's petulant
Obama won't fight his wars
like George W.

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sleep with the devil

bowing to tyrants
Hegel would have pulled Locke's teeth
to preserve the "peace"

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...to chase the dog out of the kitchen...

PD-1 blockers
unleash auto-immune storms
riding the dragon

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Niemoeller

'til Zola's "j'accuse!"
l'affaire Dreyfus just scared Jews
I'll speak for Muslims

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ongoing revelation

B-Raf binds C-Raf
pseudo-kinase signalling
needs no ATP

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bomb

big, expensive cast
couldn't save Interstellar
from leaden writing

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no strings attached

Bibi seems outraged
Obama's harder to dupe
than George W.

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cartoonish

AIPAC's delusion
well-greased palm and outstretched arm
co-opts Uncle Sam

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AIPAC

Likud's U.S. branch
claims to speak for all of us
is Congress that dumb?

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lumpen

Americans' gaits
betray sedentary lives
no drug can fix that

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myopia

far too many Jews
accept hatred of Muslims
like it's  not obscene

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2014-11-11

old news, new freedom

new revelation 
now we get to talk about 
Joe Smith's many wives

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arbitrary coordinates

Yanks just look confused
'round these parts, floor numbering
starts "rez de Chausse"

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bad shepherd

Rush Limbaugh's faithful
take revelation from him
know no other god

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transdermal

hand sanitizer
takes BPA from receipts
into your bloodstream

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free to shop

Amazon ECHO
liberates both hands and eyes
post-screen interface

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buy now!

Amazon ECHO
accesses the post-screen world
vibrationally

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yoke of heaven

Lord, grant me coffee
to change the things I can change
and wine for the rest

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sheep

Limbaugh's followers
monotheists with a twist
know no other god

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heretics

impious doctors
meddle with the will of God
each time Cheney dies

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foiled

cardiologists
contrammand the will of God
each time Cheney dies

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owned

freakin' McConnell
speaks for the race-horse owners
fuck the stablehands

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out of step

how's he viable?
Rick Santorum advocates
unprotected sex

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efes zuloto

rebbe Scheur Zalman's
radical acosmia
smacks of Spinoza

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our son of a bitch

our man el-Sisi
tramples civil liberties
with impunity

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2014-11-09

qui bono?


if Adelson wants 
he should march to war himself 
leave us out of it

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2014-11-05

pattern recognition

territorial
circuits mapped to cyberspace
evoke tribal wars

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abomination

IBM's prefab
MVS Starter System
the beast with two packs

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le formi

crosswords harvested
autumn's neat piles of paper
fires yet to be lit

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I, island

a self-driving car
equipped with WiFi hotspot
a geek's fever-dream

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Darwin's games

feeling important
another mechanism
of evolution

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sentimental value

all evolution
is cruel and indifferent
like the universe

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wild-eyed centrists

rational extremes
radical empiricists
throw explosive truths

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alienated

hanging with the crowd
beautiful views all around
staring at our phones

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unconstrained

god-damned fucking fool
everyone knows you can swear
just fine in haiku

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revolution


Bezos' vision
automating everything
zero employment

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mid-terms


demented voters
make a show of petulance
shitting on themselves

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2014-11-02

efes zuloto

Lubovitch asserts
radical acosmia
all is within God

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clientelle

put WholeFoods in Watts!
surely they need groceries
more than Malibu

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Theory of Everything

Stephen Hawking trusts
an ex-wife to tell his life
the physics gets lost

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the fist

more than NSA
GCHQ empowers
abject tyranny

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j'accuse!

who'll play Zola's role
rallying Jews to defend
our Muslim cousins?

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acosmia I

what must end with death
if each soul's consubstantial
with its Creator?

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convergence

India, rampant
heaps up the Himalaya
as she rams Asia

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ad fees

more than the parties
corporate media win
every election

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powder keg

primed for explosion
demagogues' biggest soap-box
Haram al-Sharif

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succulent

lessons from sous-vide
controlling what's denatured
defines food's texture

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clash

just two characters'
towering performances
best picture: "Whiplash"

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greedy

prolonging our slump
disLoyal Opposition
make the pie smaller

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cask-time

the best of exes
bonding over child-rearing
grow up together

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monopoly on force

federal marshalls
long arm of Leviathan
pacified the West

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never let 'em see you sweat

'though Astaire was great
Ginger Rogers did it all
backwards, in high heels

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free press

the public domain
includes Noriega's face
free for parody

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curriculum

interbellum dons
invented "literature"
to fill scripture's niche

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Keats knew

Deutsch doesn't despair
Knowledge is provisional
but Beauty is Truth

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outdated

tough balancing act
IP law works well for drugs
but fails for software

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above the law VIII

real sociopath
sure that he's above the law
Keith Alexander

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torah

we're left with letters
undifferentiated
Light has been withdrawn

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above the law VII

Keith Alexander
falsified his patent app
who dares prosecute?

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management

lashed to his own mast
while his crew rowed, unhearing
Odysseus wailed

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slant

composing haiku
the use of "quotation snarks"
conserves syllables

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above the law VI

Justice can't be blind
prosecutors need good will
from the police force

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partings

"Princess Kaguya"
letting go of one's daughters
gets epic treatment

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that's entertainment

vapid shoot-em-up
artfully executed
best picture: JohnWick

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nothing to see here

parasitic worms
lull their hosts' immune systems
sing for your supper!

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in on the groundfloor

megaFauna's dull
creative biology
paints with viruses

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great game

in post-war HongKong
Beijing feared democracy
more than Brits' empire

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aggrandizing

Erdogan's vision
of himself on the world stage
had not role for Kurds

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gesher tzar meod

stumbling through Shema
mistaking Daled for Resh
makes "One" an "Other"

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something's rotten

disinclined to trust
amateur mycologists
dubious morels

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proven technology

coal (not CO2)
sequesters carbon stably
for millenia

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screwed

UAW
colluding with Management
screw serfs from both ends

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suckered

Ratings Agencies
played investors for suckers
no skin in the game

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capitalism

if we're on the hook
for a bank going under
let's claim the profits

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voodoo

Reaganomics failed
thirty years is long enough
we need something new

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disserved

heads deep in "the sand"
ostriches in Michigan
try to ban Tesla

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overhead

USAID
cuts checks to BeltWay Bandits
who grease warlords' palms

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2014-11-01

let's hear it!

"Death to Extremists!"
residents of Isfahan
embrace centrism

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house nigger

"You're 'free'! Be happy"
Hegel preaches the Gita
to prop up Prussia

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Wolff attack

without naming him
"Defense of Anarchism"
takes Hegel to task

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legitimacy

Robert Wolff refutes
Hegel's twisted read of Kant
justifying kings

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privatized risk

"First Degree Murder"!
of Iraqi civilians
BlackWater wages

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repercussions

ArabSpring unfolds
radicalized Tunisians
swell ISIS's ranks

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depopulated

as farms automate
Iowa keeps losing clout
nobody lives there

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gasification

something in my gut
makes methane from apricots
too efficiently 

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it gets messy II

Santorum's squeezed out
as Cruz and Paul go at it
slick politicians

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it gets messy

Santorum's squeezed out
as Paul Ryan pounds Ted Cruz
all fluff, no traction

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opiate

Hegel distorts Kant
appalled at the French Terror
justifies strongmen

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sauve qui peut!

Russians are buying
New York real estate for cash
Putin has them scared

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rump

Russian mafia
once both God and State are dead
figure they're in charge

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Denzel

Denzel Washington
plays Boston's avenging knight
Batman in Carharts

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miraculous!

all my ancestors
--improbable 'though that seems--
survived their childhoods

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new life

the "Son of Hamas"
embraced Christianity
eager for rebirth

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this is not the war we're looking for

Dubya was weak-willed
Netanyahu's Jedi tricks
fail on Obama

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media hype

existential dread
focused on Ebola now
next week, something else

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iron fist

purging Xi's rivals
corrupt War on Corruption
runs outside the Law

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quagmire

sunk-cost fallacy
good money thrown after bad
no exit-planning

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coercion

double bonus points
seducing missionaries
sets church bells ringing

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desocialized

once demobilized
psychopaths who thrived in war
can't ever go home

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transient

Braceros aver
"we didn't cross the border
the border crossed us"

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alienating

Ayers' film "Fury"
distilling "the Hurt Locker"
all guts, scant glory

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passions

Homer depicted
Ares and Aphrodite
one beast with two backs

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outcast

after Ebola
survivors face prejudice
no jobs for undead

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strong chemistry

K. Peter Vollhardt
couldn't resist alkaloids
avid receptor

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good company

in the multiverse
the rays of "N" other suns
warm as many "me"s

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Right to Die

among Gitmo's sins
John Locke rates the Right to Die
next to Right to Life

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