Becker1999 from Grove City, OH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Dave S., Mark Mamerow, Mark Orlowski, Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Dadbots, After this week’s arguments over abortion in front of the SCOTUS, both the Washington Post and the NY Times ran articles discussing the potential political impacts if the Court decides, as it well …
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Category:Politics
Smash and Grab
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter There has been an upsurge in the epidemic of “smash and grab” robberies in the last few weeks, crimes in which groups of thieves, sometimes as many as eighty, will swarm into a usually high-end retailer, smash glass cases and grab as much merchandise as they can before …
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Kickass and Snow as Daylight
Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, while adhering to “anything-goes” in personally adapting to truth, science and the second coming of JFK jr. down in Dallas, has evidence that the impending snowfall is simply stored daylight which is part of a …
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Kickass and Dog for Winter
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, waits now while the keeper wrestles with the remnants of stray evolutionary residue, some of which encourages migration as a Wisconsin winter survival move, and some that exerts a powerful signal to go to bed and stay there as in hibernation. With some experience …
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Dialogues on the Art of Name Calling: the Gasbag Letters
DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Dave S., Mark Mamerow, Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter So many of our recent topics are at least partially echoed in the below. Do you gents ever read this NY Times version of the old 60 minutes: Point-Counterpoint? Gail Collins and Bret Stephens. I find it humorous and informative. Collins & Stephens …
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Kickass and Pigs and Mothers
kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s fascination with the Amsterdam experiment of using pigs to reduce bird-aircraft collision damage at the main airport; and he—the keeper, wonders if a similar application might be used to lessen the harmful impact of idiots in the legislatures and …
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Kickass and Politicizing Waukesha
Photo by Memento Media on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is working with the keeper to discourage Tucker Carlson from portraying the Waukesha Christmas Parade slaughterer as a heroic vote manipulator working on behalf of Repubs maligned by the Dems. The politicization of the unfathomable Waukesha horror is only a matter of trend time, as …
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Unschooled
Artwork by Michael DiMilo After Republican Glenn Youngkin’s surprise gubernatorial victory in Virginia last week, political analysts attributed the win—at least in part—to white suburban women voters returning to the Republican Party. While some of this movement might have been due to the absence of Donald Trump on the ballot, many experts feel that Youngkin’s …
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Kickass and Fantasy History
Gustave Doré , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, given his combined real-virtual status, is eminently qualified to assist the keeper with his project of applying the precepts of fantasy sports to history, thereby making it not only possible but entertaining to deny the slaughter of Native Americans, the existence …
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Dialogues on a Wake-Up Call: The Epiphany Letters
Photo by Raphael Schaller on Unsplash By Dave S., Mark Mamerow, Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter To Mark, Dennis, and Geoff Remember that Sunday times column by William Safire? Well, the link below is all about the word woke…. thought for sure the author would indict Aaron Rodgers for his recent vacuous deployment of it. The New York Times: The War …
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Kickass and First Snow
\Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the first swirling snowflakes of the season were immediately politicized when the Repubs said that they—the snowflakes, represented the Dems’ start of a six-month long snow job to sell snow, ice, freezing wind and blizzards as the charms …
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Kickass and Regurgitation
alleZSoyez, derivative mork of, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to challenge the keeper in his conclusion that the very natural process of regurgitation used by some birds and animals to feed their young, by bees to make honey and by cows to chew their cuds, is …
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