separate accounting

Kant exempted God
from the purview of Reason
then leapt to Belief

send in the clowns

more knives in the fight!
Santorum and Pataki
bottomless clown-car

dirty business

Santorum's running!
Down the GOP's backside
fouling the waters

a fine mess

Santorum's running!
down the GOP's scrotum
no one finds traction

abomination

child's suicide vest
victim and perpetrator
one messy package

purpose

teleology
offends materialists
Life is just absurd

Lynch's big plate

:

global corruption

runs way deeper than futbol

gotta start somewhere!

faithful servant

burying a son

Biden still works for justice

that he hasn't known

beyond God

Baruch Spinoza
ditched God but kept religion
as social cement

interpret this!

test for Scalia:
this law's authors are alive
to explain "intent"

graveyard

since Alexander
great world powers go to die
in Afghanistan

asymmetric

joystick warriors
get paid to sit in trailers
piloting Reapers

in the trenches

"JustWar" theorists
reach--at most--the officers
to grunts, it's just "war"

sunshined

Oscar Wilde's laughing
love that dared not speak its name
sings out in Ireland

synch

slick with mingled sweat
basking in the afterglow
two hearts beat as one

quo bono?

upcoming pornstar's
ostentatious endowment
would do Harvard proud

leadership

George Marshall demurred
to orchestrate OverLord
so above the fray

everything blows up

excessive moisture
arms each thermal with hailstones
subtle as Mike Bay

rudderless

is this is "control"
Mitch McConnell should worry
Senate in chaos

short one

so close to solstice
tikkun leyl shavuot
hits stride 'round midnight

nowhere

Jews model clotting
finding each point of egress
and stopping to schmooze

virga

cloudsuck's evil twin
evaporative cooling
drives howling down-drafts

too phat

hail strafes Mazourka
convection's too vigorous
only the stones fly

tantalized

the phat Walt's forecast
recedes into the future
with each model run

accent

at the salty rim
a mere sliver of moon-rind
garnishes the sea

ballpark

Fermi's estimate
watching wind-blown paper-scraps
called Trinity's yield

partition

"Federalism"
el-Abadi acknowledged
Iraq is broken

new age

brighter than the sun
worlds ended at Trinity
I am become Death

extrapolating

Wilson shared Kant's dream
beyond patriotism
Perpetual Peace

fickle

"inevitable"
wasn't a plank to stand on
when pundits dumped Dean

unreasoning II

in lieu of thinking
"Common Sense Philosophy"
endorsed prejudice

secularism

la laïcité
the French Republic's fourth leg
hasn't buckled (yet)

global coverage of local events

my 'paper taunts me
raves for British Museum's
Art Exhibition

Mamelukes

Putin's KGB
no longer dog-on-a-leash
now, it's wolf-in-charge

sovereign immunity

Vladimir Putin's
vast criminal enterprise
claims "nation" status

unreasoning

existential dread
makes some embrace afterlives
that defy reason

pacing

feature-length chase-scene
plot would slow FuryRoad down
were it permitted

long pattern

Syria's future
looks as peaceful as its past
low expectation

sovereign

professor Wagstaff
speaks for me on TPP
whatever it is

unseasonable

Strawberries! Bings! 'Cots!
disregarding the new snow
all signs point towards Spring

good design

brachiating apes
until we went bipedal
balanced passively

unsupported by the data

some delude themselves
foisting Ultimate Meaning
on an Absurd world

good engineering

consider gibbons
brachiating through the trees
innately stable

it's the journey

sacred pilgrimage
Death is the destination
we only choose how

dualist

for Epictetus
your soul's merely the payload
of a walking corpse

prophetic allegory

:

Hastert's legacy

rent-boy girt up like Leia

garroting Jabba

piggy-style

coach Dennis Hastert
pinned boys to the wrestling mat
if face-down's a "pin"

surrogate

courting Adelson
Republican candidates
pretend Bibi's sane

indeterminate II

indeterminate
Jeb's Schroedinger's candidate
running? not running?

Schroedinger's candidate

Jeb seems not to know
whether he's running or not
dumber than Dubya?

intractable

Newton and Einstein
solved the tractable problems
left us turbulence

backwards

:

benighted Ted Cruz

rejects the Enlightenment

campaigns on Darkness

be-nighted

Santorum and Cruz
reject the Enlightenment
feeling's mutual!

appropriate technology

'til you've had gophers
rodenator makes no sense
but then, it's genius!

blood-tinted lenses

Eden's relative
give the Syrians Detroit
rescue them from Hell

teleology IV

absurdist snipe-hunt
seeking ultimate meaning
life's for the living

not yet up to speed

'though he's undeclared
Jeb announced he is running
dumber than Dubya?

double your odds

first generation
protease inhibitors
C2 symmetric

recruiting

press-gangs scraped seamen
from disreputable pubs
sticky point of law

no man above the Law

director Comey
enforces the Rule of Law
even on Agents!

the lure of power

Jefferson and Hume
constitutional skeptics
foresaw tyranny

waste not

indolent squirrels
fattened on Scott's cherry crop
make second-hand pie

bad faith

:

beyond murderers

there's a special place in Hell

for war profiteers

purpose II

no God, no Telos

Spinoza found contentment

grinding out dense books

purpose

no God, no Telos

Spinoza found contentment

grinding fine lenses

in harm's way

when the levee breaks

(cue harmonica solo!)

got no place to go

penetrance

JustWar theorists
reach--at most--the officers
to grunts, it's just "war"

orality

deliquescent words

lost in the world's sussurrus

all is transience

Macabbees

Pikuach nefesh

can non-canonical text

vouch for halakhah?

marketplace

two parties compete

to speak for mega donors

"buy-partisanship"

volunteers

indolent squirrels
fattened on Scott's cherry crop
make second-hand pie

reformulated

keratin's conserved
what used to hang down my back
has put down roots there

order

Immanuel Kant's
pre-existing pigeonholes
plucked signal from noise

keepers

perverse enrichment
lending out favorite books
to curate the dregs

set and setting

George Orwell's cottage
gazes bleekly out to side
cheery as his books

theodicy III

Enlightenment's test
thinking men had to take sides
on Lisbon's earthquake

open-ended

elite rock-climbers
unconstrained by SpinalTap
go past eleven

theodicy II

no Jew dares impute
since the death of Akiva
this world should be fair

what have we done?

passenger pigeons
that once blotted out the sun
now stain our conscience

bedfellows

open for business
eager to be corrupted
candidates spread 'em

first world problems

betting on LinkedIn
MountainView reins in Google
to diversify

deep space, deep time

the view from Hubble
unblurred by our atmosphere
reaches past the stars

pay to play

pimping the boy out
W. solicits cash
for Jeb's affections

free agent

until he declare's
Jeb's free to solicit cash
like a common whore

what's next

tattoos are passe
kids know they're for old people
like genital warts

to form a more perfect union

open primaries
favor bipartisanship
over Party line

theodicy

what is the reward

for one such as Akiva?

"shut up"'s no answer

hollow rhetoric

"inevitable"
wasn't a plank to stand on
when pundits dumped Dean

all the world's a narrow bridge

paragliders fly

'twixt Scylla and Charybdis

on the pitch axis

we'll have SingleSupplier before we achieve SinglePayer

buying BMS?

Pfizer yearns to be Fenris

devouring the world

Adelson's man

:

candidate Graham

wants to kill thought-criminals

says we should trust him

pissed away

squandered potential
from cloud-base to the dam's top
hydraulic head's lost

discreet

eschew enjambment!
given five beats or seven
each line has grammar

"traitor to his class"

William McKinley
belonged to the OnePercent
no one owned TR

inside track

Hillary's campaign
courting superPAC money
open for business

isn't really past

three score years and ten
since the end of WWII
the ColdWar smolders

home-free

immune privilege
grants ebola safe haven
in the optic orb

quis custodiet II

Baltimore's police
under the DOJ's gaze
learn about karma

lacking

skinless, boneless breasts
chicken masquerades as rice
but has less flavor

nanomachine

artificial pores
bleed out fungal cytosol
amphotericin

one man, one vote

Hillary's donors
cut bigger checks than Bernie's
dollars aren't votes

pyrrhic

to keep the office
Benjamin Netanyahu
gave away the store

codependent

myopic banker
screwing the depositors
breaks his own rice-bowl

acharismatic

senator Ted Cruz
high school debate team's pet nerd
contends he's charming

artistic license

Mick's neighbor sputtered:
"hey McLeod! get offa my ewe!"
the rest's history

murk

disorienting
bleary high-pressure sunset
more Winter than Spring

hello?

"Imitation Game"
setting up "Ex Machina"
asks "what is a mind?"

free to be an ass

Pamela Geller
incites deadly violence
and brays "that's freedom!"

contempt

Roark challenged Hayden
over domestic wiretaps
he sneered at the law

on a mission from God

Lichtblau's coauthor
on our nascent police-state
lo! he is Risen!

epistemic closure

Fiorina's wealth
cuts her off from anyone
who'd tell her the truth

failing upward

Fiorina's in!
relevant experience
seems irrelevant

home to roost

Martin O'Malley's
campaign died with Freddie Gray
in that police van

explosive

with giardia
bubbly personalities
boil over, wetly

permeablized

each crack in one's heart
will never wholly heal, but
lets the light shine in

deluded

magical thinking
blinds us to reality's
inconveniences

finite resource

sweet vacuous grin
all blood drained out of his brain
when she smiled at him

tunable

"Lesser Included"
could hang Rice for manslaughter
on a murder charge

thuggery

seizing witnesses
who watched Freddie Gray murdered
cops compound their crime

perverse message II

shout-out to rapists
if you don't know what "no" means
Budweiser's for you!

perverse message

Budweiser's tag-line
insisting "no" doesn't mean "no"
endorses date-rape

marginal influence

eight moot Justices
wrestle for Kennedy's soul
over gay marriage

Intrusive

Asimos hijacked
9/11 civil case
to serve Wolfowitz

tradition

3/5 of a Man
time-honored like straight marriage
turned to to be wrong

strong medicine

when Tambura blew
the year without a Summer
darkened world fiction

O Brave New World!

Lovelace's footnotes
bequeathed Babbage's engine
software 1.0

unCivil

sectarian strife
reined in through Strongman's Winter
bursts forth every Spring

birds' nest

tragic comb-over
isn't fooling anyone
(discounting Donald)

knowing the other

every flirtation's
bilateral Turing test
can't be conclusive

unsettled

grave trepidation
past the Singularity
we're all redundant

poor taste

senator Sessions
indulging noxious Free Speech
could get his ass fragged

war profiteers

Neal and Lyndon Blue
selling the Pentagon drones
made out like bandits

failing upwards

Dennis Montgomery
played John Brennan for a fool
each got promoted

word salad

:

Tontoist haiku

filling only the meter

dispense with grammar

opportunity cost

nurturing anger

you reserve room in your life

for what you love least

Orwellian

stoking public fears
made Cheney and bin Laden
partners in Terror

the power behind

sure, "Rouhani smiles
more than Ahmadinejad"
but they're both puppets

ideas

Shireen Ebadi
proposed we try throwing books
rather than missiles

looming

peered at too closely
one coin eclipses a world
cost blots out value

po-tah-toe

London theatres
snootily trisyllabic
sneer at stages here

one law

it's not the State's place
to enforce bigots' bias
Law's meant to be blind

looking forward

:

pardoning Snowden

disowning Cheney's program

Obama could score!

boiled frogs

federal SpyState
Obama made permanent
what Cheney ad-libbed

quis custodiet?

Abner Louima
lived to see his rapists jailed
all's right in the end

toothless

GOP's hostage
a derelict FEC
enforces nothing

pipeline

except in Norway
the curse of mineral wealth
breeds malgovernance

off-target

prolonging dying

rather than restoring health

medicine amok

at this distance...

misattribution
hung gardens of Nineveh
over Babylon

PR

the Swiss Cheese cartel
foisted fondue on the world
monetizing glut

send in the clowns

in his deftest jab
Michelle Bachmann's the punchline
Obama's got chops

smells like New Jersey

Chris Christie's record
even if he fools voters
stinks in God's nostrils

unmoored

facts just bounce right off
Chris Christie's undead campaign
running on voodoo

special gifts

senator Ted Cruz
high school debate team's pet nerd
contends he's charming

beastly

Mick's neighbor sputtered
"he, McLeod! get off my ewe!"
the rest's history

not illegal

:
Pamela Geller
shows much that's not illegal
isn't in good taste

surly

Berkeley's a jungle!
self-righteous pedestrians
contest right-of-way

intelligence?

"intelligence" fail
putting his mistress on staff
got Petraeus axed

Pius XII

Mussolini's pope
threw the Jews under the bus
like Christ was Cath'lic

best representation money can buy

scurrilous rumors
speculate why Laurence Tribe
needs BigCoal's lucre

hog-tied

since prop 218
Pigovian taxation
can't shape water-use

braindead

Chris Christie's campaign
shambles on despite the facts
running on voodoo

reality-free

Chris Christie's fanbase
would just be confused by facts
in voodoo they trust

transparent bias

forty-three "nay" votes
although McConnell's onboard
just 'cause Lynch is Black

one law you shall have

David Petraeus
got parole for secrets leaked
Snowden earned the same

power in aggregate

ionized Labor
got charged for Management's frills
'til they unionized

curbing vice

Pigovian tax
shapes the incentive landscape
more than revenue

tough enough

right man for the job
Loretta Lynch has shown balls
Eric Holder lacked

help! help! I'm being repressed!

"all sorts of riff-raff"
jealous of their Liberty
settled Rhode Island

irrational exuberance

yep. It's a bubble
Slack is awash in funding
without revenues

ineffectual

by Holder's last day
one CIA contractor
had been convicted

eddies

through Jo'burg airport
a hundred cultures cross paths
StarWars cantina

keep papers coming

history ended
for Francis Fukuyama
until his next book

power conscious

the Power of Green
where even the sun don't shine
Germany prospers

hatikvah

coupling with Bennett
Bibi betroths Settlerists
forsaking all Hope

inauspicious II

embracing Bennett
mik'deshet l'milchamah
Bibi forsakes Peace

inauspicious

Bibi weds Bennett

when jackals lie down with wolves

dove's on the menu

quantum effects

:

TAs know it best

you don't really understand

what you can't explain

observer effects

:

haiku are pebbles

scattered on the beach of Time

to delight strangers

free symbolic speech

against the Machine

millions scrape up their nickels

for Bernie Sanders