Attribution: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark O., Mark M., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter The Biden Administration is trying to shepherd through a Ukraine military aid package. By most accounts, this aid is critical in order to give Ukraine a fighting …
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Category:Politics
The Miseducation of America
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter The 1983 study, “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform” sounded major alarms about the American public education system. It maintained that our schools were failing because that, among other things, that SAT scores had dropped drastically, students could no longer write coherent essays, draw inferences, …
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A Moment of Clarity
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In a surprise move last week, the Republican Party took a moral stand. Despite their recent tendencies to kowtow, cave, and kiss ex-President Trump’s posterior, the House of Representative Republicans finally decided to demonstrate that they do know right from wrong by expelling disgraced Republican Congressman George Santos. …
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Kickass and Evicting Crooks
Attribution: US House Office of Photography, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in kicking off December by doing good: in this case by passing along thoughts on how to get a crook out of the House, and what to say about the judge’s wife when you …
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Strange Fruit
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” –Thomas Jefferson Politics is a strange business everywhere but has become especially peculiar in America. Thomas Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty has been bearing strange fruit. In the past, our democracy …
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Kickass and “Margaret’s War”
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in claiming to have book-scooped Rachel Maddow with her “Prequel” that details the precarious pro-Nazi conditioning that occurred in the US prior to WWII The keeper’s “Margaret’s War,” published two years ago does the same and throws in a love story …
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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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In Memorian
Attribution: National Archives and Records Administration , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons RIP Eleanor Rosalynn Carter August 18, 1927 to November 19, 2023 “A life of service is a life well and greatly lived.”― Omoakhuana Anthonia “Thank you from the American people.”
Kickass Remembers Rosalynn
Attribution: National Archives and Records Administration , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper as he reviews how his life was given meaning by the women in it– to this very day as Phyllis assumes the burden of getting him through the day with a minimum of stumbling …
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Dialogues on a Tooth for a Tooth: Riding the Downward Spiral
Attribution: Kobi Gideon / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring The Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Mark O., Dave S., Dennis C., Paul C, and Geoff Carter “The Democratic Party’s years long unity behind President Biden is beginning to erode over his steadfast support of Israel in its escalating war with …
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Kickass and the Unacceptable
Attribution: Al Jazeera, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper’s dilemma of waking up each day to a growing list of things that he and Phyllis must accept as members of the human race: Here it is for Nov. 13, 2023! *Dead kids under the rubble …
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Kickass and Gerrymandered Geese
Attribution: Jocelyn Anderson, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s observation that during the close-to-a-century that he has been alive his relationship with the Canada geese has gone from farm-boy fascination with the high-flying V formations that signaled distant other-worlds of romantic wildness and mystery, to …
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