Dialogues on 2024 Predictions: Meet the New Boss

Attribution: Photo by Colton Sturgeon on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, It is often said (by me) that predictions are hard. Especially when they involve the future.   But today, feeling introspective on this last day of the year, as beautiful snow flurries create a …
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Dialogues on Mr Jingles: The Highs and the Manilows

Attribution: PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Listening to Fresh Air again—the dark days of December have arrived. I’ve always cringed, punched the buttons to escape, (back when there were buttons on the car radio), whenever Barry came …
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Dialogues on Getting Schooled: The High in Higher Education

Attribution: Tichnor Brothers, Publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Found this insightful, if not entertaining. Gail and Brett…and others have been espousing the value of the 3 year college degree—fits like a glove with this Economist value centric …
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Dialogues on Springtime for Stalin: Hollywood Goes to Moscow

Attribution: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter   I read the Stalin synopsis below after reading the above piece on a lowly PR Russian—Vladimir Medinsky who is credited with Putin’s success—great visual I thought. Who …
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Dialogues on Tilting the Playing Field: Electile Dysfunction

Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter A blood boiler below. For the 2nd time this week, the same Wisconsin potential impeachment of the newly elected State Supreme Court Justice—Janet Protasiewicz–has made the Times Headlines. Besides ‘splaining a new (to me) …
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Dialogues on Hazed and Confused: Lost in the Woods

Attribution: elisfkc from Orlando, FL, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark O., Mark M., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Several stories caught my eye lately. Here’s a sampling:  Hope you’re all doing well, getting outdoors half as much as Mamerow and keeping sunscreen on your …
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Dialogues on Red State Hubris: Southern Inhospitality

Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter This just in from the R dominated volunteer state: “Southern man, better keep your headDon’t forget what your good book saidSouthern change gonna come at lastNow your crosses are burning fastSouthern man I saw …
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Dialogues on a Return to Sanity: Blue is the Warmest Color

Tony Patt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter ….Hail to the Victors…bl, bl, blah… First off: Apologies in advance for the volume lately.  Below story is the sudden Democratic dominance in Michigan,  a state I thought had swung hard right. …
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Dialogues on Corrupting Influences: My War Was Better than your War

(Special Feature from ChatGPT: “AI, AI, AI, Ohhh…”) Sgt. Felicya Adams, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, Ross Douhat, conservative columnist for the New York Times, asks the question in his most recent column:  Was Iraq a Worse …
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