The Great Beyond

You know you're avoiding something when you not only click on the link to the Russian site featured on your friend's blog, but you surf around once you're there, regardless of the fact that you don't even have the capacity to sound out the words. It's a fun site, though: random (in the true sense of the word, not the sense my students use) clicking led me to one page that was full of flags, apparently designed and posted by visitors to the site. Most were funny variations on this or that national flag; others were just excuses to pledge allegiance to pot. But here are two that caught my eye, based on the US flag:



The other one has a slightly different tone:


















Sigh.