Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper on a frigid morning with the inside info that the Repubs are claiming credit for January and will attempt to have the month extended to eliminate Ground Hogs Day. Under the Repub plan, February …
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Category:Politics
Kickass Goes Political
Photo by Elliott Stallion on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, failing in his efforts to keep the keeper out of politics, turns it over to the Jan. 26, NYT and the front-page story under the headline: “Judicial Race May Alter Tilt Of Wisconsin,” and the subhead: “Abortion Rights and Voter Maps at Stake.” The article’s …
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House of Trumpenstein
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In Mary Woolstencraft Shelley’s class horror novel Frankenstein, a demented mad scientist seeks to kindle life in a body assembled from body parts of the recent dead. In the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, the nefarious Dr. Evil created an exact miniature duplicate of himself, his Mini-Me. Both …
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Dialogues on the Big Bully Pulpit: Playground Politics
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Devotee-DeBusherre Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter This got wordy, I’ll try and distill it first. Though I don’t like the term for the campaign—bullying—(I think many scoff at it saying…”Well (male, gravel pitched, voice),…it’s a tough world out …
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Kickass and Speaker of the House
DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in trying to buoy up his confidence in the intelligent working of government by watching how the Repub reps go about selecting a speaker of the house, while the New York buffoon who reported his mother died twice and …
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2022: A Year of Extremes
Photo by Planet Volumes on Unsplash By Geoff Carter Last week, just before Christmas, we were bombarded with news of a possible “cyclone bomb”, a megablizzard that could bring record snowfall, dangerous windchill temperatures, and hazardous travel conditions. We were warned. Winter Storm Eliot was bearing down on us. And, for some parts of the country, it was …
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Kickass and Returns and Exchanges
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper in this season of grand holiday returns and exchanges, and suggests the following for Wisconsin: Though he is far beyond the warranty date, Ron Johnson–due to manufacturing flaws, is to be …
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Nightmare on Main Street
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter As I get older, I occasionally catch myself repeating things. Maybe a story, maybe a joke, maybe a memory, maybe a point. That’s just part of aging—one of its inevitabilities. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about gun violence titled What’s It Going to Take? inspired by …
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Dialogues on the Primary Primary: Heading South
formulanone from Huntsville, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark. M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter The NY Times had this to say about the Dems primary sequencing change: “In 2008, Biden drew less than 1 percent of the vote in Iowa and dropped …
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Dialogues on Labor Pains: Railroading the Unions
Attribution: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Dülmen, Börnste, Eisenbahnlinie Dortmund-Enschede — 2015 — 9918” / CC BY-SA 4.0 Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Joe Biden considers himself to be a huge backer of organized labor. For example, he was very vocal in support of the failed effort to certify a …
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Kickass and Bad Idea Pickup
Ropable, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper and Phyllis in formation of the Bad Idea Trash Pickup (BITP) which is to function on both the international and domestic levels, heading first, of course to Russia where Putin’s war idea, along with Putin himself, will be …
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The Slow Grind
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine” –Ecclesiastes 8:10 Last week, nearly two years after the attack on the Capitol Building, a jury found Stewart Rhodes, leader of the far-right extremist Oath Keepers militia, guilty of seditious conspiracy, obstructing certification of the election, and destroying …
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