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The Wizard of Roz

By | 2021-06-18T15:13:29-07:00 June 19th, 2021|Categories: Issue 131: 19 June 2021|Tags: , , , , , , |

By Marleen S. Barr   "I thought the Donald would evaporate in a poof of orange smoke, ending a supremely screwed-up period of history. But the loudest mouth is not shutting up. And Republicans continue to listen, clinging to the idea that the dinosaur is the future." – Maureen Dowd, New York Times, May 9, 2021 [...]

Milk Duds

By | 2019-03-18T15:59:11-07:00 March 21st, 2019|Categories: Issue 83: 21 March 2019|Tags: , , , |

By Marleen S. Barr   Baby cages were the last straw for Professor Sondra Lear, a feminist science fiction scholar par excellence. She had tears in her eyes whenever she thought about children wrenched from their parents’ arms. Desiring to drown out her sorrows in a morning cup of coffee, she boiled water and placed a [...]

First 100 Days: Two Trump Heads Are Better Than One?

By | 2018-03-07T10:59:44-08:00 May 4th, 2017|Categories: Issue 23: 04 May 2017|Tags: , , |

By Marleen S. Barr   Professor Sondra Lear, a feminist science fiction scholar who teaches at the Metropolitan University of New York, could not ignore the persistent pain in her molar. Thus it came to pass that she found herself sitting in an oral surgeon’s chair about to have her tooth extracted. “Do you want me [...]