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SHOCK AND AWE

Is Everyone Overwhelmed Without Me?

Shock is better than Botox

Amy Sea
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3 min readFeb 6, 2025

giant bear dog on hind legs playing with a smaller dog
Waffles and his buddy

What would I do without my dog, Waffles?

No matter what genre of crapola is dumping its sewage onto my world, Waffles remains the sane.

Look at you, astute editors. You thought I meant Waffles remains the same, that I made an editorial error because I’m dumb and don’t know words. Not so. I meant Waffles remains the sane.

Have you turned on your TV lately? The only people who aren’t insane are dogs.

On the other hand, maybe you’re not watching the news because you don’t want permanently raised eyebrows or you’ve grown weary of shock and awe.

I get it, but I can’t look away. I am a news junkie. I couldn’t turn it off if I wanted to.

Even after the recently fired Surgeon General, stated “Watching the news will take years off your life” I switched that shit on. What are we blowing up now? What diseases are we bringing back from the Middle Ages? Is that legal?

The news cycle is one 24/7 soap opera except instead of getting laid, everyone’s getting fired or promoted. A 22-year-old with the online name BigBalls just got a big job in government? You can’t make this stuff up which means more writers are out of work. Thanks.

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Reflections of the Mindful — A publication designed for the writer to reflect, the reader to be inspired, the creatives to find their muses.

Amy Sea
Amy Sea

Written by Amy Sea

100 X Top Writer, Editor— Comedian, Satirist, Humorist, Top Writer. Follow me on Substack (substack.com/@whoagirl)

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