Attribution: Charles Edward Miller from Chicago, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Mark O., Dave S., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter I recently was answering an innocent worker survey. The first question asked for my gender and was very pc, providing about a dozen options, including …
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Category:Law
Contempt of Court
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.” –Senator Marsha Blackburn The rule of law. Everyone is equal before the law. The law is the …
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter It’s happening again. The rich, the elites, the privileged, the American royalty, are once again proving that they are more than equal to the rest of us. Welcome to the rarified stratosphere of the one percent. Welcome to lifestyles of the rich and infamous. On the heels of …
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Kickass and News Perspective
NASA TV, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, interrupts his napping to assist the keeper in putting certain news items into relatable perspectives. The destructive blow-up of Elon Musk’s 33-engine, 394-foot-tall rocket ship, celebrated by Musk and his followers as a success, can be compared to someone in the …
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The Hall of Shame
MN National Guard, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons I grew up in Wisconsin. One of my first childhood memories is sitting in the living room in front of an eighteen-inch television set watching the 1967 NFL Championship Game, better known as the Ice Bowl. I saw the final play of the game, Bart Starr’s winning …
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More or Less Equal Before the Law
Deval Kulshrestha, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons “We are a government of laws, not of men.” John Adams said that. “All men are created equal.” Thomas Jefferson said that—in The Declaration of Independence. Atticus Finch, in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, said “In this country, our courts are the great levelers.” These are all fine …
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Dialogues on Busting the Filibuster: Letters from Across the State Line
formulanone from Huntsville, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Mark O., Dave S., Paul C., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Bots, An additional political note on Roe -v- Wade if you can stomach it. Our President Biker-in-chief has declared that he’s willing to support an exception to the …
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Helping Hands
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Since the recent—but not unexpected—Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe -v- Wade, American citizens have been scrambling to come to terms with the consequences and implications of this new and deeply disturbing ruling. The nation is reeling in shock. After all, it’s the first time that the highest …
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Blind Spot
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter The January 6th Congressional Hearing has been a study in contrasts, a showcase of the best and the worst of the American psyche. At times, the hearings have been inspirational and heart-rending, but they’ve also been horrifying and embarrassing (but only in the sense that those being investigated embarrass—and …
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Dialogues on Supreme Injustice: Letters from the Majority
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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