Playing with words

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war with reality.” (Lewis Carroll)

I love words. I love to play. Here is some wordplay of shock and awe:

“Woke” (the opposite of asleep); “deep state” (the shallow state’s gaslit ideology); CRT (Shhh!!); Gaza (a real estate mogul’s dream); “DOGE” (Department Opposing Generous Efforts); “Muskrat” (creature behind the curtain); oligarchy (ask Aristotle); plutocracy (no need to apply); WSJ (a liberal rag); science (Sharpie Gate?); climate change (a hot mess); our planet (scorched Earth); Central Valley H20 (“Oopsie!”);Escalante (is Glacier next?); Monarch (endangered species); bleach (medicine for next pandemic); MAGA (Make America Greedy Again); Canada, Greenland, Panama (greedy ideas?); Quipu (“Let’s buy that!”); revision (“Gulf of Jimmy Buffet?”); January 6th (a violent “day of love?”); whitewash (color in vogue); “aliens” (actually humans); jobs (“You’re FIRED!!”); honeymoon (short); reputation (tanked: Pew Research); projection (pot, meet kettle); projection #2 (insulting the mirror); “mandate” (not exactly); Kennedy Center (Kill Creativity); chaos theory (throwing spaghetti at the wall); “Gone Girl” (gone); “nasty women” (proudly principled); justice (ask Alexander Hamilton’s ghost); “America First” (playground language); grocery prices (“just kidding”); inflation (check your tires); tariffs (Yay! Higher prices!); “X” (juvenile bigotry); chainsaw (cruder than a scalpel); Zelenskyy (ghosted!); Ukraine (gaslit!); “Separation of…..”(Amen!); SS (next??); “Ordo amoris” (ask the Pope); USAID workers (“worms?”); cult (retribution Kool Aid served here); “conservative” (cautiously traditional??); proof (buried in orange pudding); “promises” (crossed his fingers); checks/balances (off the rails); Congress (anybody home?); lockstep (gait of lackeys); Fox “News” (slyly omitting stories); “Dang!” (“not in MY state!”); blowback (not your hairdryer); “genius” (comedians); catastrophe (not about your cat).

Of course, this is just silly wordplay nonsense; some sassy satire. “What me worry?” (Mad).

Best to laugh, lest we weep. Don’t you just love the Cheshire Cat?

– Nancy Teggeman, Polson