Unlike members of the Religious Right, the Religious Left doesn't advocate ripping children from their mother's arms and putting them in cages, putting prisoners to death when witnesses have recanted and they have been refused the legal admission of DNA exoneration, or the necessity of carrying assault rifles into church. Just sayin'.
by Monkey's Dad March 12, 2020
The collective exhalation of relief following the guilty verdicts in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Floyd's last words, I can't breathe, had become the mantra of injustice in a country where police killings of unarmed Black men are routine and have gone largely unpunished.
As the three verdicts were read - guilty - guilty - guilty - millions of Americans, across the spectrum of race, ethnicity and economic status, suddenly felt WE CAN BREATHE.
by Monkey's Dad April 21, 2021
The deep American exhalation, after too long a period in which I can't breathe was true for too many, for so many reasons.
by Monkey's Dad November 07, 2020
In the eyes of Derek Chauvin, George Floyd's crime was Breathing While Black. As Chauvin suffocated Floyd for more than nine minutes, ending his life, Floyd's last words were "I can't breathe", a phrase which became a rallying cry for justice.
by Monkey's Dad April 21, 2021
A large pictorial representation of a sufferer's inner life, encircling the patient and often having real objects - ie; other people, as a foreground.
No matter how clearly her shrink explained that it was only a Psychlorama, the patient increasingly believed that what she was seeing was the actual world.
by Monkey's Dad October 16, 2019
'Love Thy Neighbor' seemed an outdated notion, a souvenir of a vanished world, everyone now sheltering indoors, regarding their neighbors as a threat, overtaken by suisociophobia.
by Monkey's Dad March 22, 2020
"Why is that Guinea Pig on a leash?" she wondered, before coming close enough to see that it was a full-grown, two-pound minimal, the smallest dog she had ever seen. She had to have one.
by Monkey's Dad March 16, 2020