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Michael Crowley
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Left leaning Gen X guy pondering the universe. I scribble bad haikus and random musings. Feelin’ Minnesota.
Both proud and ashamed my inbox has an email that reads “Ordered: Hooded Medieval Cloak”
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
For the record, whenever I see the word “pariah” my default mental image is of South American river fish with razor sharp teeth.
October 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Facebook reminds me that on this day, September 23rd, in 2014, President Obama saluted a Marine while holding a latte. The horror.
September 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous.

It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy."

Because that's not how America works.
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The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...
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September 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Monica Lewinsky, decades after the presidential scandal that made her famous, told Sophie Gilbert at #TAF25 that she sees herself as “a poster child for having survived shame”:
‘I Couldn’t Run Away From Being Monica Lewinsky’
In a conversation at The Atlantic Festival, the activist and podcast host spoke of herself as “a poster child for having survived shame.”
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September 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Delicious taco
Have they blemished your good name?
Go, be a hero.
#badhaiku #haiku
June 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Dog barks. Horn beeps. Yawn.
The clock on the nightstand glows
The bar must have closed.
#haiku #badhaiku
April 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Great words won't cover ugly actions
Good frames won't save bad paintings
“New Noise” by Refused
December 2, 2024 at 12:56 AM
A stranger’s “Hello.”
Interrupting the mundane
Approaching, barefoot.
#haiku
November 26, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Really fed up with this “It’s only OK if we do it” bullshit.
Republicans Are Mad That Democrats Are Confirming Lots Of Biden's Judges
“No more Judges confirmed before Inauguration Day!” Trump said on social media. But Democrats are making judges a priority in the lame duck ― just like the GOP did, too.
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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CMS is a real job. Maybe a TV host can pretend to do some mid-tier cabinet position while a deputy does the real work. CMS is a technocratic job responsible for 6,000 employees, complicated billing policy, HIPAA, etc.

Dr. Oz knows how to do precisely none of that.

www.axios.com/2024/11/19/t...
Dr. Oz tapped by Trump to oversee Medicare, Medicaid for millions
Dr. Oz is another surprising choice with a background in TV.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Thanks for noticing.
November 17, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum #handmaidstale
November 16, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Hang the deejay, hang the deejay
November 16, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Interrupted hush
An aeroplane streaks the sky
Sip of tea, turned page
#haiku
November 16, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Webb's first deep field.
This is so deep space that if you'll look at this portion in the sky, you'll see complete darkness.
🔭 🧪
November 16, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Untethered to form
Maranta Leuconeura
Silently awakes
#haiku
November 14, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Holding hands, such warmth
In an instant, all my doubts
Decapitated
#haiku
November 13, 2024 at 12:30 AM
My daughters, my sons
We stand uncertain today
Of all tomorrows
#haiku
November 12, 2024 at 12:38 PM
This is weird. On my tablet using the Dish app, MSNBC ch 209 keeps disappearing from the “News” tab, but is available under the “See All” tab during the live DNC convention. The next morning it’s back under the News tab. It’s happened both nights.
August 21, 2024 at 12:49 PM
“Mom does not like demons.”
February 24, 2024 at 1:17 AM
A hesitant pause
Thoughts hang crystalized mid air
The moment slips by
#haiku
February 13, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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where sea and sky meet,
and mysteriously greet
hazy horizons

#haiku
#poetry
February 11, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Hope kindles a flame
Once dowsed by cascading streams
To begin anew
#haiku
February 11, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Plucky syllables
Owl has one, vowel has two
My lips disagree
#haiku
February 10, 2024 at 8:12 PM