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SuperTruth®: The Phantom Loaf

Phantom loaf

Focusing closer on this particular question revealed another difference: When asked if they considered compassion a quality of strength in a leader, all the non-loafers answered affirmatively. All the loafers answered that compassion was a weakness, not just in a leader, but in a citizen. One loafer summarized it this way: “At least Hitler had some backbone. Gandhi was a pussy.”

The mysterious loaf of brain matter appeared where no such mysterious loaf of brain matter should be. And then...

Illustration by P Random Reay

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Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

 

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