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When Clowns No Longer Bring the Laughter

Going Down the Election Escalator

August 24, 2024

Political clowns ruining the memories of when the circus came to town -- and clowns were jokers and jesters in painted faces -- not politicians with tainted hearts and dirtied lives. Read

Going Down the Election Escalator

August 24, 2024

A whimsical post on today's political campaigns -- just because I felt empowered and emboldened by a feeling of joy . . . Read

Where Fools Dare Tread

Where Fools Dare Tread

August 07, 2024

Stepping beyond the acceptable and the defensible -- and into political slapstick, political burlesque, political travesty -- the new, revised, Trumpized GOP. Read

American Politics

American Politics

August 03, 2024

Comments: 1

America's two-party system -- each party defined and explained in four simple words Read

Unity At Last

Unity At Last

July 28, 2024

In A State of Euphoria

In A State of Euphoria

The Coronation of Anarchy

July 15, 2024

I lived with Kennedy, King, Reagan -- and I know the pain, sorrow and sense of betrayal that it brought. This time, it made a martyr out of evil. Read

The Coronation of Anarchy

July 14, 2024

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Let America's requiem begin -- the GOP convention -- July 18, 2024 -- a day that will live in infamy . . . Read

Presidential Legacy

Presidential Legacy

From Deliberative Chamber to Snake Pit

July 09, 2024

When you wish upon a star (TV star) -- Pinocchio comes life. And the lies never stop . . . Read

From Deliberative Chamber to Snake Pit

July 06, 2024

Congress explained and described Read

State of Indignation

State of Indignation

June 28, 2024

Did anyone read my essay entitled "the Debate: Visionless"? This is my follow-up after the debate . . . Read

The Sacrifice

The Sacrifice

June 24, 2024

Trump's VP candidate -- the sacrificial lamb . . . to appease the unappeasable God. Read

White-Hooded Patriotism

White-Hooded Patriotism

June 24, 2024

MAGA -- white-hooded patriotism disguised as a Trojan Horse -- but the elephant's trunk and tail give it away. Read

Lies Reveal the Truth

Lies Reveal the Truth

June 22, 2024

"Liar, liar pants on fire" -- now simply a "fact-check" anomoly Read

Pure Madness

Pure Madness

June 22, 2024

Making Dachau and Auschwitz again -- this time the reich way, the American way . . . Read

Tear Back the Curtain

June 15, 2024

The rich and famous and 15 minutes of fame and a lifetime of fortune . . . Andy Warhol was right . . . and the world but a stage for their antics and their lies. Read

Intuition

Intuition

June 08, 2024

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A nostalgic backward glance at my initial thinking of the January 6th insurrection as it was happening -- intuition never fails. Read

Portrait in Hate

Portrait in Hate

August 26, 2023

My personal reflection on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech -- 60 years later . . . Read

Raging River

by theonedying

May 15, 2022

Step in a Movie Screen

by stormylfl

February 24, 2022

HAIM and AC: The Prisoner

by AdamCarlton

September 03, 2019

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

This story was originally formulated (in mediocre form as you will see) by the Israeli AI, HAIM, which writes stories: https://www.ai21.com/haim. (I described HAIM in this essay: https://www.booksie.com/603412-a-cure-for-writers-block). I used HAIM's story as a rough draft, a starting point, to produce my final text, which is hopefully better. The original… Read

Callbacks

Callbacks

by skye01

The Land Of Rainbows and Unicorns

August 04, 2019

The Land Of Rainbows and Unicorns

by nightlock00

July 31, 2019

Switching Tracks

Switching Tracks

by l.w. ellis

July 14, 2019

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

ATLAS STRETCHED

by Malini Chaudhri

December 01, 2018

This is an experimental flash nonfiction essay with complex parallels on modern issues. It shows technique and allegory in literary style. Read

The Future is scared of us

by Doe Bades