Attribution: fredrik Andreasson from Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in instructions for making Super Tuesday personally “Super” in the only way that has any meaning: Look in a mirror and if you see a reflected image it means that you exist and …
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Sanctuary
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We live in an age of dazzling and astoundingly rapid advances in technology. Personal computers emerged only forty years ago, and smart phones only became widely available to consumers in the 2000s and early 2010s, yet these electronics have become indispensable for modern-day life. We depend on them …
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Dialogues on Grumpy Old Men: Get Off My White House Lawn!
Attribution: Joe Biden: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (source: Joe Biden); User:TDKR Chicago 101 (clipping) Donald Trump: Shealah Craighead (source: White House) Сombination: krassotkin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, Last week’s biggest political …
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Kickass and Time in Alabama
Attribution: ErgoSum88, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, celebrates with the keeper in finally nailing down the fact that the keeper’s lifetime of doing totally stupid things is directly related to time spent in Alabama as he was emerging from his teenage years. Prior to spending three months in …
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Clown Shoes
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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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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