Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In 1975, Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin presented his first Golden Fleece Award, a trophy recognizing individuals and government agencies for outstanding achievements in squandering taxpayer money. The award was, of course, tongue-in-cheek, but if the senator were around today (and not spinning in his grave) he would …
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This Aggression Will Not Stand, Man
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In the cult film classic, The Big Lebowski, the Dude, its laconic anti-hero, complains to the other Lebowski—the Big Lebowski, the rich one—that he, the Dude, has been robbed and beaten up by thugs who had mistook him for the other Lebowski. The Dude is neither rich nor powerful, …
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Kickass and the State of….
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, pauses with the keeper as he—the keeper, assesses “the state of stupidity” as manifested by the following examples: *The red dressed idiot woman narcissist who shouted insults as the POTUS spoke about losing his son to a …
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Dialogues in The Echo Chamber: Letters from the Unemployment Office
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots Mark Mamerow., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, February 6, 2022: ‘It’s not like we don’t have enough jobs here in Wisconsin’: Ron Johnson won’t try to land Oshkosh Corp. …
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Kickass and DNR Board Outrage
kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in reporting on the recent unbelievable DNR Board meeting at which Walker appointees, one of whom—Wausau tooth-jerker Fred Prehn, refuses to step down from his expired term, voted in favor of continuing to allow the poisoning of surface water …
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Kickass and World Mother
Photo by Evgeni Tcherkasski on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, again endorses the keeper’s call for the creation of a no-nonsense “World Mother” with tribal authority to take the likes of Putin by the back of the neck and bang his head against the wall until he stops acting as the playground bully. So long …
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Kickass and the Ice Storm
NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in the gray world as it observes global icing by closing schools, suspending garbage collection, and sending out the salting trucks. It is somewhat the way the world is reacting to Putin’s circus-like machinations: protect the innocent, live with …
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Kickass and Guv’s Speech
Lisacheese, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s note to Gov. Tony Evers following the Guv’s state of the state speech as carried on PBS Tuesday night: “Good job, Tony, honoring EMTs and Vets, and distributing some of the state surplus to the citizenry; but not …
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Kickass Watches Crows Chase
Sardaka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper takes bird incidents where he can get them from the 5th floor bird-isolated location where he and Phyllis reside, and therefore it was with some excitement that he watched an obviously pissed-off crow chase another crow across the parking …
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Dialogues on Scaling the Wall: Letters from the Fortress
A gated community, Conyer by N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots Mark Mamerow, Dave. S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Bots: As pledged. Guardian article link on increasingly polarized US of A. I was first going to let you read it, send my takes separate…(skip to link now if …
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Kickass and Disappointing Groundhog Day
slgckgc, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper hasn’t been so let down by a commemorative day since boyhood Christmas gifts of socks and underwear replaced BB guns and toys: The 2022 Groundhog Day was a real bummer in that it passed by …
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Dialogues on the Art of Stonewalling: The Average Joe Letters
President Joe Biden Talks on Phone with W.Va. Sen. Joe ManchinThe White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots By Mark Mamerow, Dave. S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Bots, Minnesota Mark had some provocative comments that didn’t make the final cut of our discussion of the BBB standoff. I …
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