(Special Feature from ChatGPT: “AI, AI, AI, Ohhh…”) Sgt. Felicya Adams, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, Ross Douhat, conservative columnist for the New York Times, asks the question in his most recent column: Was Iraq a Worse …
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Category:Politics
Kickass and Cataracts
Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in celebrating the now commonplace cataract surgery as both his wife Phyllis and son Mike undergo the procedure. The keeper remembers an elderly relative undergoing an earlier version of cataract treatment that involved a much less effective …
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Dialogues on Pigs at the Trough: How Green was my Valley
Flying Logos, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Over_$1,000,000_dollars_in_USD_$100_bill_stacks.png Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Hey Bots, Same shit different day. Fortunately I really let ‘em have it. This should fix things once and for all. –Dave S. –Dave Ah yes, the cry of the …
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Kickass and Election Day
Photo by Elliott Stallion on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper and Phyllis will be doing their part on this election day to fumigate the Wisconsin State Capital of the minority representation that has denied Wisconsin residents a democracy since the Gerrymandered Walker “FoxyCon” job of some years ago. The politicized state …
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Kickass and National MA
Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that the need for a no-nonsense national Mother Authority (MA) has never been greater as the current situation continues to deteriorate: more guns recommended to solve school shootings, politicians lurking in bathrooms and maternity wards with arrest …
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Two Steps Back
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “It’s déjà vu all over again.” –Yogi Berra I don’t know why anyone is surprised at the Silicon Valley Bank failure. This has all happened before—and more than once. Most recently before this latest debacle, reckless lending practices and artificially inflated housing prices led to the burst housing …
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Kickass and Voting Wrong
Danny Howard from San Francisco, CA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, often charged with clarifying even simple issues for the keeper, was not on the job when the keeper erroneously marked “yes” on his absentee ballot to the two advisory questions regarding judges’ power in election issues …
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Kickass and the David Statue
Jörg Bittner Unna, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has it on good authority that Trump and Desantis are both claiming that the giant Michelangelo statue of the Biblical giant-killer David, currently in the news, is an accurate image of themselves, with minor exceptions. In …
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Kickass and Country/City Kids
Channel 3000, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s reading suggestion–Kathy Cramer’s 2016 book “The Politics of Resentment,” as a means of understanding why the Wisconsin country kids hate the city kids to the extent that they deny truth and vote against their own interests. How …
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Dialogues on Bringing in the Outliers: All Politics is Local
Carol M. Highsmith , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Heads up: As I recall few can access these NY Times links, but I think some can. If not I’ll nutshell it: Hope springs, Dave. Dave, Thanks for sending this! …
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Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Americans across the spectrum were shocked, dumbfounded, and ultimately (like watching a rattlesnake) fascinated by ex-President Donald Trump’s social media post announcing that he was to be arrested on Tuesday and telling his followers that they should “Protest, take the nation back”—which was read by some as an …
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Kickass and Caesar’s Demise
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in doing his morning check to see if the State Capitol is still in place as a pimple on the far horizon, notes that on this ides of March day of 2023 it is indeed in place and briefly outlined …
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