Wellness Check

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I spent last Saturday night in the emergency room, sitting with a family member who wasn’t in dire shape but still needed immediate treatment. Because it was a Saturday night, things were busy. There were probably about twenty people in various stages of distress waiting for care. A …
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Dialogues on MAGA Economics: A Tariffying Spectacle

Illustration by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., and Geoff Carter Good am, members of the resistance:   Comms channel: reminder to follow protocols and scramble all correspondences.  Idea for political cartoon: Then and now axis of evil.   Trying to understand how tariffs might trickle down, not just …
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Kickass Asks Questions

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has never eaten anyone’s homework nor chewed the cover off a banned book, but he is volunteering to assist the keeper and Phyllis in dealing with their current list of outrageous questions which includes the following:             *Is there no stopping the utter madness of …
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Kickass and Tariffs

Attribution: Michael Coghlan from Adelaide, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, bypasses the keeper and Phyllis in offering his own canine explanation of just how the orange poodle’s tariff system works:              “First, consider the world to be a big tree which all of the male dogs have been …
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Kickass Thanks Elon

Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, having forever marked Wisconsin as his territory, joins the keeper and Phyllis in sending a thank-you note to Elon for his generous participation in the recent state supreme court election won by Susan Crawford: “Elon: “Thank you so much for helping …
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Kickass and the April Fool

Attribution: Osmar Schindler (German, 1869–1927), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, turns this April Fools Day over to the keeper:    THE APRIL FOOL    “Who’s the biggest April fool? “Not me, not you, we’re cool.        “Is it Elon Musk as the loan arranger “Buying votes as the foreign stranger?        “Is …
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Kickass and ICE

Attribution: Cgoodall, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that it is only a matter of time until he and Phyllis are accosted by black clad masked young men who demand that they come along peacefully as the deportation process has advanced to their category—that being “elderly …
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