Sometimes, a nation, like a person,
must make mistakes in order to learn
and move forward.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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Heh, Heh, Heh
L aura was breathing harder now, her head resting against George’s shoulder as they sat in his pickup truck at the drive-in movie. It was a long movie and she had been up since the crack of dawn. She was asleep.
"Looks like you managed to cut off our only escape route,” Princess Leia tongue-lashed the handsomely handsome Han Solo.
“Maybe you’d like it back in your cell, your highness!” Han rhetoricated mockingly.
“Aaugh!” Laura screamed, awakening to the sound of laser fire pontooning from the small metal speaker box hooked on the passenger side window.
“Laura, what’s wrong?”
“Oh George, I just had the most frightening dream of my life. I dreamed you were president and I was First Lady and a band of bearded evildoers blew up New York City!”
“Heh, heh, heh,” George spontaneously chuckled, draining his fourth Budweiser. “Heh, heh, heh. That’ll be the day.”
~ Story & photo morph by Russ Allison Loar
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Donald Flintstone Elected President Again
You can agree or disagree with Donald Trump, but he clearly represents a vision of the past, a vision of a homogeneous culture in which the implanted beliefs of white, Christian males supersede all others. It is a vision without a foundation in the actual country in which we live.
O yes, the Earth is flat and no longer revolves around the sun.
O yes, we shall march in lockstep back to the Dark Ages, where the wildest conspiracy fictions and contrived pseudosciences rule our lives. And we shall imprison all traitors who do not comply.
O yes, ideologies shift and change, but that is of no matter. Compliance is what we seek.
O my country. O my people. What have you done?
Ways We Lie
"This is not about sex!"
~ by Russ Allison Loar
~ Illustration: Danmark Lovers ~ 1872
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# 135:
When the seeming hopelessness of reality
darkens your spirit, employ faith
as an instrument of imagination.
~ Russ Allison Loar
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darkens your spirit, employ faith
as an instrument of imagination.
~ Russ Allison Loar
© All Rights Reserved
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