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Cream of the Cool

Welcome to America's Constitutional Crisis. The Trump Administration just said they deported 350 Venezuelan immigrants who were gang members to Venezuela. Only they sent them to El Salvador, where they are to be held for ‘a very good price’. Note that El Salvador is not subject to U.S, Laws and therefore U.S courts. But a judge ordered the Administration to stop the deportations and return them home. None were returned. None of the judge's orders were obeyed and…

The Moon

It sounded like a pack of dogs in the night. I arose confused and looked to the blinds. A number of dogs live in our neighbourhood, true, but it's unlikely they would be roaming and snapping in the snow at stupid am in the morning.

The sounds came closer.

Then I heard the human chant.

They were drunk and slurring their words!

After Donald Trump's lie filled address of a Joint Session of Congress, I think the time has come to realize We're the Bad Guys Now.

That's difficult for Americans: we call ourselves not a good, but a great country in the very same spirit as Tony the Tiger. We stand for freedom, but what is freedom anyway? Certainly we don't stand for the freedom of a woman to control her own body, or the freedom of an intersexed person to live and present as who they are,

It was the first and last time. They never quite made it.

They had met in their 20s. Through mutual friends at work.

The usual banter. The jokes. The jabs to the shoulder that never went anywhere.

One was in a relationship. The other knew better.

They remained in the same friend group. Relationships with others came. And went. Nobody lived up to their expectations. They were waiting. Just for a chance.

There was never anyone else. It was always one