Attribution: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark O., Mark M., Dave S., Dennis C., and Geoff Carter Awaiting our boots on the ground bots to shine light on this one. Some thought starters: Now…about that 2 year old, future drug dealer…rapist…serial killer… But that’s a pretty …
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Category:Oligarchy
Kickass and a Day Off
Attribution: It is unclear as to whether the press-materials were distributed by a personal publicity agency representing the subject, or if they were distributed by an agency employed to publicize the film, and/or the first CBS television broadcast of the film, which aired on November 3, 1956., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes …
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Constitutional Anarchy
Attribution: National Archives at College Park – Still Pictures , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition …
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Reading the Signs
The Pen in Hand Blog
Illustration by Michael DiMilo
Stemming the Tide
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter The beat goes on. And on. It just won’t stop. Like the relentless pounding of a jackhammer or the thumping of an overdriven car speaker, the deranged agenda of the Trump administration and its Project 2025 adherents will just… not… stop. For a while, it seemed as if …
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Kickass and Canada Relations
The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes
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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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Out of Order
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “What do you call ten thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?” –“A good start.” “What do you throw to a drowning lawyer?” –“His partners.” All right, all right. I’ll stop, but people tell these jokes for a reason. They hit a nerve. We’ve all watched the …
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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 POTUS Eviction
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes, along with the keeper, Phyllis and thousands of Sunday’s “Hands Off” demonstrators, that having made their feelings known they will now demand that the most recent POTUS election be declared null and void on the grounds of illegal vote buying, easily proven by …
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Kickass and No First Dog
Attribution: Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis and the entire citizenry on this April 5, 2025 to message the demented chief herding mutt that he is not qualified to take the herd down the road to greener pastures and he needs to turn himself in to the …
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