Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter The great English historian Lord Acton once said, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely” and speculative novelist Robert Shea once declared, “Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.” Current events seem to be bearing out these predictions. Of course, what’s transpiring in Washington, D.C. today is …
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Category:Politics
Dialogues on Confusions of Grandeur: What Would Jesus Do?
Attribution: Artificial intelligence, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., Michael D., and Geoff Carter Have you guys seen this? According to multiple news sources, including “The New York Times”, Trump posted this grandiose AI generated image of his Christ-like self on “Truth …
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Peeling the Orange
Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Set aside his greed and his corruption. Set aside his complete contempt for the law and the Constitution. Set aside his callous disregard for human life and the suffering of millions—many of them children. Set aside his lust for power. Set aside his incompetence. Set …
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Dialogues on Life During Wartime: The Price of Opportunity Costs
Attribution: Petty Officer 2nd Class Jordan Jennings, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., Michael D., and Geoff Carter Bots, Allow me to interrupt your nonstop chanting of “USA! USA! USA!” for a few brief moments, with this unfortunate note of warning. Commandante …
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Breathe
Attribution: Photo by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter To say we are living in a tumultuous time is a bit of an understatement. While this may not be the very worst of times, it’s getting there. First of all, we live in one of the least equitable societies in our history, where according to the Congressional …
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Kickass and Dumb Legislators
Attribution: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the Keeper and Phyllis and the rest of Wisconsin in wondering just what the hell it is that puts utter fools in too many of its Washington legislative posts, and can anything …
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Kickass and Migration Oddities
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in looking to Nature for information on yesterday’s national “migration” to the sidewalks and streets across the country and then back home to weekend chores, pleasures and malcontent. In addition to the well-known migrations of caribou and monarchs and …
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Shame on Us
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, three times, four, more… and shame on us. All of us. Over the past fifty years, the American people have been screwed over so thoroughly and completely that we can’t tell up from down anymore. We’ve been screwed from …
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Kickass and Media Billionaires
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having spent his “working” life gathering and disseminating information as an ink-stained wretch, appreciates the recent surfacing of a quote by either Einstein or Twain stating that when the billionaires finally control all the media, everyone else will be feeding …
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Our Right to Know
Attribution: Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report Magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter The American people are deeply indebted (more than we know) to the free press and the journalists who risk their lives to uncover corruption, expose criminality, and preserve the personal freedoms in our lives. Without their work, …
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War Games
Attribution: Photo by Saifee Art on Unsplash By Geoff Carter One of the most popular films of 1983 was WarGames, in which our hero David Lightman, a teenaged hacker, runs across what he believes is a very sophisticated online computer war game, hacks into it, and initiates the “Geothermal Nuclear War” program. Unfortunately, the hacked device turns out …
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Dialogues on Dumb and Dumber: The Donald Trump Amateur Hour
Attribution: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., Michael D., and Geoff Carter Hey bots, I am still reeling from the last episode of The Donald Trump Amateur Hour. Pam Bondi’s appearance in front of the House Judiciary Committee looked …
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