Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, three times, four, more… and shame on us. All of us. Over the past fifty years, the American people have been screwed over so thoroughly and completely that we can’t tell up from down anymore. We’ve been screwed from …
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War Games
Attribution: Photo by Saifee Art on Unsplash By Geoff Carter One of the most popular films of 1983 was WarGames, in which our hero David Lightman, a teenaged hacker, runs across what he believes is a very sophisticated online computer war game, hacks into it, and initiates the “Geothermal Nuclear War” program. Unfortunately, the hacked device turns out …
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Dialogues on Dumb and Dumber: The Donald Trump Amateur Hour
Attribution: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., Michael D., and Geoff Carter Hey bots, I am still reeling from the last episode of The Donald Trump Amateur Hour. Pam Bondi’s appearance in front of the House Judiciary Committee looked …
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Operation Epic Quid Pro Quo
Attribution: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter On a Sunday morning eighty-five years ago, December 7th, 1941, our nation awoke to the news that the U.S. was at war. Last Sunday, we awoke to learn that we were at war once again, and that this time we were the aggressors. The …
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Kickass and the War Morning
Attribution: Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper reassessing his self-assigned responsibility to make a daily comment on whatever registers on his erratic flight plan, sometimes as a diversion from an impossible truth and other times to call attention to yet another absurdity or …
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Tariff Tantrum
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In a highly unusual occurrence in modern American politics, the Supreme Court of the United States made a ruling that President Trump did not like. Not at all. Like a nanny taking away a favorite toy from an extremely spoiled child, the justices removed Trump’s tariff powers, ruling …
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Kickass and The State of Dog Walking
Attribution: Tony Alter from Newport News, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in doing something special to mark the reading of the “State of The Union” in the legislative chambers tonight. As suggested by Kickass himself, an arrangement will be made to treat …
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Kickass Remembers and FORGETS
Attribution: Illustration by DonkeyHotey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis and their crowd of “seniors” working with each other and the younger establishment in memory matters. Accepting the verity that almost at birth memory begins to do wacky things in the forgetting department—Where did …
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Kickass and Earth’s Fate
Attribution: Photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper tuning in to his Outer Space frequency to hear the following: “Attention all those millions out there observing the quaint space experiment on Earth whereby the most advanced …
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Our National Embarrassment
Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter She sat in front of the panel like an animatronic Barbie doll (Weird Barbie), glossy and blonde, but radiating an arrogant, overweening and disdainful vibe. She was there to testify to the House Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives about the status …
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Kickass Goes to War
Attribution: DJ Mapping, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to help the keeper adjust to the POTUS plans to go to war with either Mexico or Canada, both countries obviously being highly questionable neighbors as seen in the incisive analysis of the Commander In THIEF. By way of …
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Kickass and Superbowl Boos
Attribution: VOA News – B Allen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis finding themselves in the incredibly rare circumstance of agreeing with a POTUS decision to not attend the Superbowl tomorrow in Santa Clara because, as the POTUS says “it is too far away.” …
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