Photo by Ian Hutchinson on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots By Mark Mamerow, Mark O., Dave S., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Flaming’ Dadbots, Joe Manchin has pulled out of Biden’s BBB bill. If he maintains this position, progressives will never trust moderates again. It’s getting as bad in the Democratic Party as the Republicans have had …
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Category:Politics
Kickass and Ignorant Senator
Phil Roeder from Des Moines, IA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that being “first” is something that should not be ignored, and so Sen. Johnson’s anti vaccine stand which marks him as “the most ignorant man in the US Senate” calls for acknowledgment …
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Kickass and Snow Denial Plan
Taxiarchos228, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in distributing instructions for using the Snow-Denial plan which, incidentally, is similar to how the Repubs embrace the “big lie.” Fact one: Though the ground is covered with something white, that could be god’s dandruff as these things are …
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Living the Lie
Artwork by Michael Dimilo By Geoff Carter Sometimes the quality of competition in a contest is so evenly matched that picking a single winner would seem to be nearly impossible. For example, the 1975 Academy Award nominees for Best Picture included some fantastic movies, including Jaws, Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Nashville, and—the winner—One Flew Over …
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Kickass and the Republican Christmas
RAHurd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper in absorbing the sad, sad story of how the narcissistic dishonesty of Wisconsin Republicans has turned the state into a political garbage dump, as it was told Tuesday by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. That ten Wisconsin Repubs forged an …
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Kickass and the Shortest Day of the Year
Winter Solstice Sunrise 2010 by Sian Lindsey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listened as the keeper interviewed the shortest day of the year (SDOY): Keeper: “So how did you end up as the shortest day of the year?” SDOY: “Daylight started to leak out through a big hole in …
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Kickass and the Ill Wind
Lyle Muller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis survived the fierce night winds of Dec. 15, 2021 by hanging onto each other tightly: and by trying to figure out how the once proud state governmental structure of Wisconsin is now being displayed on …
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Dialogues on Freedom from Choice: The Sleeping Giant Letters
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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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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