Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter What’s it Going to Take? On November 19th, a 22-year-old gunman killed five and wounded seventeen at Club Q, an LGBTQ in Colorado Springs using a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun, both so-called “ghost guns” with no serial numbers. What’s it going to take? How many more must …
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American Shingles
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter One of many stealthy threats to the health of older Americans is shingles, a painful condition in which a painful rash of raised blisters erupts over the body. It can last for weeks. Some patients cannot bear to wear clothes over the afflicted area. Shingles is caused by …
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Back to Basics
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter One of the main purposes of public education is to help mold conscientious, thoughtful, and responsible citizens. While most public-school curriculum emphasizes the core curriculum subjects of Math, Science, Social Studies, and English, our schools are mainly taxed with producing good and decent people—and they are still doing …
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Make-Believe
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We live in strange times. In an era with nearly unlimited access to knowledge available anywhere or at any time, an era of fantastic leaps in science and technology, and an era of unparalleled artistic accomplishment; in this era, today, a significant portion of our population is still …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Yesterday is Here
Mathieu Kappler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Film Review of Call Jane By Geoff Carter The movie Call Jane starts off with a long tracking shot following an immaculately dressed woman as she descends the staircase of a ritzy hotel on her way to a dinner with members of her husband’s upscale law firm. The woman pauses …
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The War on Terror 2.0
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter America knows how to deal with terrorists. Or we think we do. After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush declared a war on terror. He warned the government of Afghanistan that harboring terrorist groups would result in severe consequences, and then on October 7th, when they refused to act, …
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Kickass and Candidate Quotes
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in mulling over the following actual quotes: Tim Michels, Connecticut billionaire bidding to buy the Wisconsin governor’s mansion for personal entertainment, as in playhouse: “After I am elected governor, Republicans will never lose another election.” Ron Johnson, who tried to deliver …
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Dialogues on Lying Like a Rug: Tartuffe Goes to Washington
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter We should not be surprised by some level of hypocrisy from politicians. But the Herschel Walker abortion story is playing out at a higher level. Football hero & Trump devotee Walker is running in …
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Who Are These People?
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” These immortal words of President John F. Kennedy became the inspiration for tens of thousands of young Americans. To them, and many others, these words stood for selflessness, sacrifice, and a …
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The Queen is Dead
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last Thursday, at the ripe old age of ninety-six, after a reign of seventy years, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. The news of her passing has (in a gross understatement) dominated the news. She had been the queen since her coronation in 1952, the same year that The Jackie …
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End Game
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter This hasn’t been a good week for former President Donald J. Trump. The Department of Justice recently released the heavily redacted subpoena to search his Mar-a-Lago property, revealing that the former president had been illegally in possession of confidential government documents two years after the end of his …
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A Patch of Blue
By Geoff Carter Artwork by Michael DiMilo These past few years have not been good for America. A deliberately planned insurrection at the Capitol Building on January 6th, 2021 nearly resulted in a successful coup. A million Americans died (a significant number of them needlessly) during the Covid pandemic—which is even now still lingering in …
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