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Weekly Challenge #957 – PICK TWO Role model, Beep, Curious, No annual contract, Conference, Ballet
RichardSerendipidy Norval JoeTom Planet ZThe next topic is UnsafeTOMCommissars ChoiceIt was the heady days after the revolution. All traditional preforming arts were deemed counter-revolutionary. No more Swan Lake. No more Nu
Ghost guns
When Bob saw the gun buyback program, Bob saw an opportunity.He priced out a room full of cheap used 3D printers and buckets of manufacturing resin.Then he bought plans for a simple "ghost gun" and set the printers to rendering them around the clock.O
Packing the court
After years of contention, Congress passed legislation to expand the size of the Supreme Court and the president signed it.The Court immediately tried to review the law and declare it unconstitutional.But the House filled the airwaves with meaningless i
The hangings
We went to the town square for the public hangings. By the time we got there, the crowd was shouting DEATH DEATH DEATH! Three hooded and jumpsuited figures were on the platform, ropes around their necks and tied to a bar. Nobody knew who they were. Or wha
I won’t see you in Hell
Victor St. Vincent, my nemesis. Before I stomped on his hands and let him fall from the bridge to his death, he said: "I'll see you in Hell!" But now that I'm in Hell, I haven't seen Victor. I've seen Stalin and Hitler. I've also seen Gandhi. It's the shi
Possums
The thing I like most about working from home is being able to look out the window and watch the possums wander around. Sure, my work office had a nice wide window, but the odds of possums wandering around outside 8 floors up are rather slim. And any circ
On a schedule
My mom had Alzheimer’s and dementia. Or maybe only one of them. But I think both, because the Alzheimer’s made her forget about the dementia and the dementia made her forget about the Alzheimers. Both made her forget to take pills. I’m got her one of thos
Weekly Challenge #956 – Rose
RichardSerendipidy Norval JoeTom Planet ZThe next topic is AUG 25 PICK TWO Role model, Beep, Curious, No annual contract, Conference, BalletYeah, I screwed up the posting and didn't notice until Saturday. I'm on fumes at this poin
The commandment
The Second Commandment says not to make graven images or likenesses of things in heaven above, earth beneath, or in the water.But what exactly is heaven above? Does that mean Heaven, or does that mean the air?Scholars and rabbis pondered this for years.
The dumb dream
The lot across the street used to be a credit union.After that, they made it an ATM outlet.And now, it's an empty lot.Parking for the truck that hauls in wrecked beemers and benzes.Or a place for cops to write tickets.I had a dream of buying it, razi