Fear of the coming year, as twenty-twenty-three draws to a close and 2024 presents potential for catastrophic damage, with A.I. and a certain former president threatening to overturn the world as we have known it.
He had lived through a great deal, yet the prospect of 2024 was inducing twenty-twenty-phorbia, the deep-seated fear of the year ahead.
A highly infectious contagion in which unfortunate word games spread from one victim to another until the entire nearby population is groaning in pain.
Jack suddenly shouted, "Can February March? No, but April May", laughing uproarious at his own stellar wit. Stan replied, "Need an ark to save two of every animal? I noah guy" smirking at his one-upsmanship, neither hearing the quiet groaning coming from each side of the table - a tragic symptom of the viral pundemic. It was irreversible. Sue chimed in, "Becoming a vegetarian is one big missed steak."
A pandemic, threatening to repossess the life and the world we thought we owned, because we didn't honor our end of the bargain.
So much that they had loved was gone, swiftly taken back in a massive repodemic.
The self-description of any person who cannot understand the separation of Church and State upon which the United States is constitutionally constructed. A person who does not understand that the United States is equally founded on the guarantee of freedom of religion for all people. A person such as... say... Marjorie Taylor Greene? Yup.
"We need to be the party of nationalism and I'm a Christian Nationalist, and I say it proudly," said Marjorie Taylor Greene, once again demonstrating her intellectual capabilities. Her self-avowal follows her claim that Christian nationalism will solve school shootings and "sexual immorality" in America.
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... as asked by Republican Senator Ted Cruz of prospective Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett, to ascertain her judicial ideology and fitness to sit on the bench.
The four questions Cruz asked:
1) How long have you played the piano?
2) Do the kids do piano lessons as well?
3) You and your husband have seven kids. How did you manage with the distance learning? What was that like in the Barrett household?
4) What advice would you give little girls?
Depression, when the magic goes out of digital life.
She had been enthralled with Facetime, Zoom, texts and emails, yet now was overwhelmed with deprestidigitation, yearning for a touch, a smile, eye-contact, the unfiltered sound of a loving voice.
A book about the author's own life, which very slightly embellishes the truth, as far and as often as possible.
Deciding that her mother was the renegade Ninth Duchess of Waterford, her father a famous and notoriously dissolute rock star, her conception occurring at midnight on the Concord as all around them were asleep, she began her projected ten-volume sortabiography.