Elvert Barnes from Silver Spring MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave O., Mark O., Paul C., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Hello Bots, Had no idea just how adrift the ‘progressive’ state of fighting Bob is on this issue: Politico: Abortion Laws by State –Dave Time to …
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Kickass and The Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is working with the keeper to try to find something workable in recent Supreme Court decisions; and suggests that having made corporations into people with all of the attendant socially-destructive rights therein, funding religious schools with public …
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Dialogue on Crime and Punishment: Letters to Quantico
Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter ABC Television-ABC Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The New York Times: “Two Men Acquitted of Plotting to Kidnap Michigan Governor in High Profile Case” (April 8.2022) My Take: This ain’t your Efrem Zimbalist Jr.’s FBI anymore. Acquittal sounds valid. FBI hired loose …
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Kickass and Moral Procrastination
President Biden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hears the keeper comment that 157 years after the end of the Civil War there is great rejoicing that a Black women will become a member of the Supreme Court. At this rate of moral procrastination, the War …
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Kickass Talks to Cops
Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis were among those at the recent coffee-with-a-cop breakfast at Vista West; and both came away well-fed and comforted by the reassurance that while the Madison police are very reluctant to get involved in cases of cheating at Scrabble; they …
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Don’t Look at the Big Picture
Photo by Thomas Def on Unsplash By Mark Mamerow It’s just common sense, isn’t it? James and Jennifer Crumbley behaved irresponsibly, and now they’re being held accountable for it in court. The Crumbleys are the parents of the 15-year-old who shot up a suburban Michigan high school in America’s latest numbingly familiar school massacre. But in the case of Michigan …
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Trial by Proxy
Artwork by Michael DiMIlo By Geoff Carter The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse is underway. He is charged with killing two men and wounding another during the violent protests that began in Kenosha after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man. Sound familiar? Where else have we seen this? Minneapolis, Philadelphia, New York …
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Qualified Immunity: There’s a Catch
Photo by Sora Shimazaki from Pexels By Mark Mamerow “That’s some catch, that Catch-22,’ Yossarian observed. “It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed. —Catch-22, by Joseph Heller Readers of Joseph Heller’s brilliant World War II black comedy Catch-22 see the war from the bemused and frustrated perspective of Captain Yossarian, a bombardier. Throughout the novel, Yossarian’s desire …
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