Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter He’s done it again. That Master of Marketing, the man who brought us Celebrity Apprentice, Trump Airlines, Trump University, ACN Communications, a series of failed casinos, his own line of urine tests, and of course, his name, his exclusive brand—his name, seen emblazoned in garish golden letters across …
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Category:Politics
Add it Up: The Nature of Bidenomics
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In the film Silence of the Lambs, serial killer—and cannibal—Hannibal Lecter says, “Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing, ask what is it in itself? What is its nature?” (Silence of the Lambs). This advice helps FBI Agent Starling capture the notorious serial killer Buffalo Bill. If, like …
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Out of the Woodwork
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Ten years ago, the idea of a mob of American citizens attacking the U.S. Capitol Building would have dismissed as absurd, the stuff of apocalyptic fiction. In the 1950s, parents whose children’s lives had been saved by Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine would have been shocked and appalled …
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Kickass and Weather by Republicans
Attribution: Photo by David Moum on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes, along with the keeper, that the strange unseasonably warm temperatures are due to a systemic responsibility slipup in which the turtle-like US justice system somehow ended up in charge of the weather, and the Repubs then filed a petition for summer. A prominent …
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Unbalanced
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter There’s an old adage that the balance of power in American politics swings like a pendulum, and that as times and the needs of the electorate change the pendulum will swing from left to right—or right to left, as the case may be, implying there is a balance …
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Kickass and the Groundhog’s Shadow
Attribution: Anthony Quintano from Mount Laurel, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper passes along news that the Repub’s attempts to impeach the groundhog and replace it with a weasel has stalled as the entire weasel family—which includes the badger, serves notice that they …
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The Invisible Man
Attribution: Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter How can a president of the United States be so ignored, overshadowed, and underappreciated? How can the monumental accomplishments of this man, our current commander-in-chief, be so quickly forgotten? He almost single-handedly lifted our nation out of the Covid crisis and jump-started our economy. But he gets …
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Dialogues on 2024 Predictions: Meet the New Boss
Attribution: Photo by Colton Sturgeon on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, It is often said (by me) that predictions are hard. Especially when they involve the future. But today, feeling introspective on this last day of the year, as beautiful snow flurries create a …
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Catch-45
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We live in perplexing times when an ex-president, presently under indictment for over ninety felony charges, is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. And—even more strangely, when his alleged crimes include (but are not exclusive to) instigating an insurrection against the very government he ruled and seeks …
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Kickass and Ejection Recliner
Attribution: DelmerViramontes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has established that he and Phyllis will be dealing with all future severe winter weather issues from their control recliners and adds that the keeper is hard at work designing an “ejection-recliner” which uses sound activation to forcefully eject …
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2024: Out of the Frying Pan
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter New Year retrospectives are, for the most part, eminently predictable. There are the usual lists of notable storms and natural disasters, celebrity memorials, messy political scandals, blockbuster movies, and the newest eye-dazzling technologies. People like lists. They’re quick, easy to read, and distill even the most complicated issues …
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Dialogues on Blood Money: Selling Short and Selling Out
Attribution: SensexTodays, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Mark O., Dave S., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Below is speculation, but there are some facts in the attached chart. It says Hamas made $1-2M off of the attack by selling short in an Israeli ETF fund. (Chart is …
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