Fighting back

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a menacing fog hangs low serpenting and infiltrating nooks and crannies while the news continues to spew its ugliness and venom resistance may be futile but i fiercely refuse to stop defending the last little corner of my brain that remains unblemished by this mile high pile of appalling bile that's vile AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on March 29, 2025

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Lin Lane

Date: 3/29/2025 8:40:00 AM

I stopped watching the news long ago, Line, but it's inescapable when news items pop up everywhere. We find ourselves wanting a quiet place where that mile high pile of bile can't be seen or heard. I fear the filth will only mound higher.

Line Gauthier
Date: 3/29/2025 2:32:00 PM

There are people who have the power and whose job it is to set things straight..... we wait and hope !