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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Category:Politics
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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Kickass and Wisconsin Government
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis’s joy in watching the election returns of Sen. Warnock was blunted by recalling the recent senatorial election in their own state when a decent capable candidate was defeated …
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Kickass and Ten Commandments
Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, considering all the blah-blah about suspending the Constitution, is working with the keeper to have the Ten Commandments suspended in the interest of cleaning up his–the keeper’s record enough so that, if he should ever be so inclined, he could apply …
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American Shingles
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter One of many stealthy threats to the health of older Americans is shingles, a painful condition in which a painful rash of raised blisters erupts over the body. It can last for weeks. Some patients cannot bear to wear clothes over the afflicted area. Shingles is caused by …
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Hospitality
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Originally published Thanksgiving Day, 2018 Thanksgiving 2019 (addendum) Even though the events in this original blog–the caravan to the U.S. border–are past, the effects of them are still with us today. The U.S. is presently holding thousands of refugees in camps and in …
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Dialogues on Gazing Into the Crystal Ball: The Morning After
Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Predict-o-Bots, I have to say, not a bad effort by this team of wizened political observers. To a man, we predicted that Tony Evers would squeak …
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