whose metric?

median income
hasn't grown in three decades
voters demand CHANGE

karmic pendulum II

we paid for a Shah
the Ayatollah was free
Karma's pendulum

Hosanna

Russians are praying
Khodorkovsky will come home
like a new Lenin

arsenal of Liberty

a clever gray-hat
might tap Putin's purloined wealth
to arm Kurdistan

over-reach

Putin's over-stretched
liberty-loving Chechens
are guarding his back

next

who'll topple Putin??
Mikhael Khodorkovsky
gotta top most lists

tools

useful idiots

shouted down Sanders' challenge

to the plutocrats

let them eat cake

Donald Trump boasted

of quid-pro-quo corruption

aux armes, citoyens!

can't fight what you can't understand

as mad as king George
Nixon mistook Vietnam
for a pitched battle

failed revolution

Robert Mugabe

treads Zimbabwe in the dust

hyperinflation

unCivil

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

help! help! I'm being repressed!

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

the game's the thing

to History's ear
Hillary Clinton's "stacked deck"
evokes the SquareDeal

expired

"Hunting Accident"
or "Mysterious Plane Crash"
Putin's gotta go

tepid

Hillary Clinton
the Left's OnePercent darling
leaves most voters cold

pawns

Nemtsov's murderers
paid to deny Putin's role
are disposable

retrograde

Nemtsov's supporters
dreamt of a better Russia
but woke in Stalin's

clever fool

Putin lacks vision
all tactics, no strategy
shambling toward chaos

a boy to do a man's job

Marshall in China
picked up the ball Hurley dropped
too late in the game

sold! II

Luce sold Chiang Kai-shek
to readers of "TIME" and "LIFE"
packaged like Lincooln