2015-11-28

visionary

by 2005
George Soros called the bubble
few see so clearly

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ugly

Saban/Adelson
fund the worst stereotypes
rich Jew as monster

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self-damned

putative "Christians"
who demure to love strangers
can all go to Hell

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2015-11-25

good neighbors make

Occupation's costs
Liebowitz as Cassandra
shouted himself hoarse

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hypocrites

putative "Christians"
who demur to love strangers
can go straight to Hell

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Waah!

Putin acts aggrieved
that Turkey defends her skies
psychopath "victim"

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nativist

if hating strangers
would send "Christians" straight to Hell
we'd have lots more room

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mind the gap

pumping the phosphor
indium-doped gallium
makes white LEDs

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crafty, not innovative

accountant-in-chief
sold Pfizer to Allergan
to evade taxes

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jedi-level

South Georgia Island
catabatic williwaws
albatross playground

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synecdoche

time-honored format
striving for profundity
try writing sonnets

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playing with fire

Vladimir Putin
a schoolyard bully with nukes
wants Erdogan's lunch

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when fascism comes to America

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sublimating fears
Trumpen proletariat
bouffant fascism

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2015-11-24

insider

no agent of CHANGE
the senator from WallStreet
thinks the system works

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2015-11-22

second place

Amundsen's sled-dogs
graciously left cairns of shit
to guide Robert Scott

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sterotyped

Hebrew translation
Lady Chatterly's lover
must be an Arab

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old-school

Pat Robertson's god
punishes children for sins
of their forefathers

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second place

Scott followed the cairns
of dog shit Amundsen left
right to the South Pole

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outrageous intrusion

inverse honeypots
"Special Demonstration Squad"
betrayed public trust

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no ground to stand on

Jeb scores easy points
pointing out that Donald's wrong
but owns no platform

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aspirational

dynamic soaring
without convection or ridge
albatross-envy

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self-assembling

primal nanotech
phospholipids assemble
spontaneously

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old machine

no mere prosthesis
a ribosome's RNA
is the working bits

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prejudice

Donald Trump's mask slipped
his database of Muslims
revealed the fascist

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dynamic soaring

albatross as bow
held taut by the string of wing
endless potential

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in-house

Jordan's Abdullah
steps up to confront Daesh
it's a Muslim thing

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diminished

by 2005
U.S. influence had tanked
Heck of a job, George!

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purpose-built

the ice-worthy Fram
wallowed like a pig in shit
until frozen fast

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unexamined life

failed experiment?
a whole nation of assholes
born of immigrants

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refuge of scoundrels

no cause for pride here
our exceptionalism's
just egotism

unAmerican

America's shame
a nation of immigrants
turns refugees back

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American exceptionalism

pull up the ladder!
now that we've found safe refuge
let the laggards drown!

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innocents abroad

refugees in France
find Hell is hot on their heels
far from Syria

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2015-11-21

an honest politician stays bought

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beholden to banks
the senator from WallStreet
doesn't feel our pain

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2015-11-19

balance II

sword, scale, and blindfold
Justice has three attributes
no one can suffice

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balance

sword, scale, and blindfold
Justice has three attributes
all necessary

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2015-11-18

unmotivated

living in darkness
Gollum didn't need a Ring
to go unnoticed

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IFF

PD-1-ligand
tells Killer-Ts to stand down
"these are not the 'droids..."

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vainglory II

Robert Falcon Scott
cured ennui walking to Hell
for a penguin's egg

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vainglory

to stave off ennui
Robert Scott led men to Hell
for a penguin's egg

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global terror

Beirut's forgotten
as the world mourns with Paris
lonely on the Front

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2015-11-17

rough manager

Agamemnon chafed
on better men under him
Achilles got sore

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2015-11-16

low expectations

dark Daesh vision
clash of civilizations
banking on hatred

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on the rebound

dancing binaries
flinging their partners away
form a new couple

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satisfaction

David Deutsch perceived
bad epistemology
dooms societies

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fat of the land (and of the sea, and of the sky)

geese wax fat in Fall
salmon max out in the Spring
omnivores' bounty

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for the resume

Bashar al-Assad's
head's the coronation gift
king Salman's heir craves

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Good Old Days

malign nostalgia
Ike's "WetBack" atrocities
look rosy to Trump

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dumb and dumber

senator Ted Cruz
years after Perry flamed out
still can't count to five

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exceptionalism

blanket amnesty
just Cuban Americans
GOP logic

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cover-up

Bernard card'nal Law
shielded known pedophile priests
"suffer the children"

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Acting

Timothy Dalton's
portrayal of James O'Bond
scandalized Eton

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indefinite detention

locked up without cause
we grow our own terrorists
at Guantanamo

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tabula rasa

Dubya's accounting:
youthful indiscretions purged
'cuz he's BornAgain

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lies

Ben Carson's fables
unmoored from reality
seem delusional

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ill repute

the age of FauxNews
reality's no defense
against calumny

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fraunhoffer

spectroscopic'ly
trans-uranic elements
mark super-novas

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2015-11-15

sold!

in bed with bankers
the senator from WallStreet
can't deliver CHANGE

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2015-11-14

unanswerable

guilt-wracked survivor
there, but for the grace of God
tastes absurdity

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unnatural

Dick Cheney's new heart
like Darth Vader's prostheses
sustain the undead

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nasty

the Book of Judges
argued for Leviathan
before Thomas Hobbes

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nuts

Ted Cruz and Rand Paul
to use the technical term
"hard-currency kooks"

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2015-11-13

causus belli

Cheney smirks darkly
his world vision realized
as Paris explodes

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2015-11-10

lost dream

symptoms of despair
the BibleBelt turns to meth
and the Ku Klux Klan

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hostage to our detainees

gesture of goodwill
give Cuba Guantanamo
throw in the tenants

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Worst Journey II

bored with too much peace
Apsley Cherry Garrard sought
manhood in peril

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Worst Journey

when life looked too dull
Cherry-Garrard walked to Hell
for a penguin's egg

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low-energy

Jeb slept with a girl!
rather than bore her to sleep
Poppy's ecstatic

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argument from design

Paley recursion
stumbling on a perfect God...
who created Him?

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synergy

strict reductionists
treast emergent properties
as causus belli

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zichronam

a yawning black gash
memorializes lives
lost in Vietnam

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humanism

strive for perspective
dehumanizing others
diminishes us

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sinat chinam

pious hypocrites
keep the Fast of Gedaliah
but murdered Rabin

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apocalyptic

Sign of the EndTimes
Dubya in league with Bachmann
proselytizing Jews

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pants on fire II

Ben Carson's fables
sink the credibility
without which, he's toast

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blowback

embracing Assad
Putin alienated
a billion Muslims

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lost dreams

mortality tracks
with Existential Despair
in the BibleBelt

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incitement

Amos Guiora
find Brandenburg test too strict
wants HateSpeech reined in

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deep stuff

where the sun don't shine
Clostridium anaerobes
come into their own

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cannot say our hands are clean

never to forget
Rabin's assassination
Tzom Gedaliah

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usurper

anointed in blood
Netanyahu incited
Rabin's assassin

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pharos

shut up, calculate!
relativistic beaming
(can't visualize)

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unreality-based community

half-prepped candidate
Ben Carson sticks to the script
if not to the truth

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pants on fire

Ben Carson's stories
don't stand up to scrutiny
FauxNews' darling

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tube-within-a-tube

Alberta's tar-sands
would transit U.S. heartland
like shit through a goose

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poor host

amateur clown night
Trump hosts Saturday Night Light
inhospitably

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new Orpheus

crossing South Georgia
Shackleton--long believed dead--
hiked back from Hades

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conditionally impossible

South Georgia's backside
had been thought impassable
until Shackleton

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2015-11-09

howling potential

Elephant Island's
catabatic williwaws
could power Rio

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tough

Shackleton's wireless
proved less robust than the crew
who limped back from Hell

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consequences

denuded of trees
mountains wash into the sea
inexorably

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2015-11-06

desire on wings

beautiful grey gull
sooth-sleek black-tipped wings abreast
staring greedily

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2015-11-05

it all makes sense (to me)

domoic acid
made Ben Carson's brain shrivel
(personal theory)

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I'll pass, thanks

domoic acid
causes one's brain to shrivel
irreversibly

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nesting

over centuries
two-step photosynthesis
terra-formed young earth

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synergy

determinate bees
comprise intelligent hives
in the aggregate

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untidy package

failed formulation
smoking for the nicotine
dying of the tar

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content

data compression
photos of pocket lining
needn't fill our 'phones

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unregulated

Bush, like McKinley
let Capitalism run
roughshod over us

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Intelligent?

it seems God plays dice
the giraffe's laryngeal nerve
looks like a hack job

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napoleonic

Putin prefers men
next to whom he can look big
short al-Assad's stock

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cons conned

Ahmad Chalabi
darling of the neoCons
played us for trillions

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2015-11-03

emergent property

Determinate bees 
 comprise intelligent hives
 in the aggregate

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2015-11-02

industrial age

phyllo de-novo
only for a masochist
life's just way too short

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Einstein

imagination's
more important than knowledge
but harder to teach

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civility

Gingrich plays with fire
Buchanan-era rancor
got way out of hand

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inhospitable

God dwells with migrants
Lot's gated community
stank in His nostrils

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proxy

Bashar al-Assad
last year's convenient strongman
found a new patron

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us and them

lacking a phoneme
the Septuagint struggled
to write "Shibboleth"

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feckless

twenty years ill-spent
backlash from Rabin's murder
hasn't advanced Peace

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it's a hot mess

Jeb's polls are slipping
once Santorum's in the pool
no one has traction

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foiled again

Jeb's polls are slipping
Santorum costs him traction
in the voter pool

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2016 slipping away

Jeb finds no traction
leverage counts for nothing
because...Santorum!

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humility

Jesuit-in-Chief
chastens Princes of the Church
"who am I to judge?"

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loco parentis

voice recognition
lets the new HelloBarbie
mould children's psyches

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revisionist

lost WhitePrivilege
inspires Trumps backers to rage
for the "good old days"

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making lemonade

ben Zakkai's triumph
rather than accept defeat
co-opts history

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meaning attaches

eight-fold symmetry
persimmons hint at Buddha's
enlightenment path

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Brandenburg Test

Rabin sang for Peace
Benjamin Netanyahu
incited murder

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foolish pride

Bentham's calculus
Priam should have ditched Paris
and saved a kingdom

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hive mind

Conway's GameOfLife
complexity emerges
from algorithms

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neo-Stalinist

:
thirteenth FiveYear Plan
sequel to a bad movie
Xi mistrusts markets

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sequel to a bad movie

thirteenth FiveYear Plan
Xi JinPing turns a new leaf
out of Stalin's book

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proper powers

Chickenshit Congress
wants us to bomb Syria
but won't declare war

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uses of rhetoric

Pericles extolled
a long-ago Golden Age
but worked for progress

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2015-11-01

comfort

dissatisfaction
raised to an imperative
par'shah Lekh l'kha

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Sampson option

bringing down the house
leaky mitochondria
ditch symbiosis

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bimetallism

first DeflationGate
WallStreet bankers feared silver
would bust their corner

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the cost of Pride

Bentham knew Priam
should have given Paris up
to save a kingdom

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shameless

Hephaistos' wife
caught fucking her own brother
blushed (transiently)

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limiting nutrient

before Fritz Haber
Chile and Bolivia
fought over guano

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invested in noise

Donald proves the rule
the loudest Howler Monkey
has the smallest balls

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optimize!

ancestral opsin
before the first vertebrate
absorbed in UV

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anti-American

"Confucius Peace Prize"
hails an autocratic thug
Robert Mugabe

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genes, not organisms

Hamilton's RedQueen
pathogens and parasites
make sex rewarding

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ill-used

Benghazi outpost
belonged to our CIA
Chris was a figleaf

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short his stock

no one loves Assad
Putin prefers shorter men
who make him look big

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rough patch

sqeaky car-owners
knocked the Tesla's ratings down
not quite oil-free yet

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cracks in the machine

Sanders and Bloomberg
two Jewish Independents
ride voters' disgust

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