Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Outspoken is hardly the word to describe former president Donald J. Trump. Neither is bombastic, ranting, raving, or loudmouthed. The nastiness and sheer animus of his discourse deserves a word with a much ruder connotation; blunt is a closer fit, but that word can imply being brutally truthful, …
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Category:Politics
Dialogues on the Florida GOP: A Visit to the Elephant Graveyard
Illustration by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter The “abortion issue” rubber is about to hit the road in Florida. Their state Supreme Court just made two rulings: 1) Upholding the 6-week limit passed last year by the FL legislature, and signed …
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Kickass and Eclipse Glasses
Attribution: Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be helping the keeper in his project to reclaim and repurpose all the now useless eclipse viewing glasses for viewing TV during the current political campaign. Like the warning about eye damage occurring from viewing the eclipse without the …
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Kickass and Madison Sunrise
Attribution: Todd Klassy from Madison, WI, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper in watching the sunrise this morning, as his angle of view put some of the first brilliant rays in close proximity to the State Capitol, an obvious omen of a coming day of …
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Bought and Paid For
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter The housing market is tough these days. Interest rates are soaring, prices are high, and inventory is low, but none of this is deterring Vladimir Putin, who seems to be ready to become involved in the housing market. He has recently showed significant interest in purchasing the property …
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Grumpy Old Men
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We are presently living through one of the strangest times in American history. Four years ago, we survived a deadly pandemic and global lockdown. Just three years ago, a mob—instigated by a sitting president—tried to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. Our political institutions, the mainstream media, and justice …
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The Nine Black Riders
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy masterpiece The Lord of the Rings, the evil lord Sauron’s minions include the nine dark riders, known as the Ringwraiths or Nazgul, former men who have been seduced by the corrupt power of the one ring who would rule them all and turned into …
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Kickass and the State of the Union
Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper joined Phyllis in staying up past their bedtime to watch the long drawn out political slow dance of the state-of-the-union speech when the nation’s leaders assembled in the same room to act like third graders. …
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Dialogues on Right To Privacy Pirates: The War on Women
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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Kickass and POTUS Age
Attribution: Adam Schultz , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, from his vantage point of ten years in age on Joe Biden, passes along the word that it is not to worry about Joe being too old for the POTUS job. Au contraire! When the keeper …
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Kickass and Super Tuesday
Attribution: fredrik Andreasson from Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in instructions for making Super Tuesday personally “Super” in the only way that has any meaning: Look in a mirror and if you see a reflected image it means that you exist and …
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Sanctuary
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We live in an age of dazzling and astoundingly rapid advances in technology. Personal computers emerged only forty years ago, and smart phones only became widely available to consumers in the 2000s and early 2010s, yet these electronics have become indispensable for modern-day life. We depend on them …
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