Princes of Darkness

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We’ve survived another Halloween season, which, regrettably (to me at least), is becoming more and more of a Hallmark holiday. Increasingly elaborate costumes, extravagant home decorations, and a growing cornucopia of movies and limited series have inundated us for weeks—if not months, but the psychopathic killers, monsters, aliens, …
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Eve of Destruction?

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last Saturday, two days after participating in our local rendition of the No Kings March, which drew over 15,000 people in Milwaukee, I—like most Americans—was appalled and disgusted to see a backhoe tearing down the East Wing of the White House the following Monday morning. It was as …
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Kickass and Statue of Liberty

Attribution: Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, understands the keeper’s dilemma in reviewing his experience of endangering the Statue of Liberty lest it is copied by the current Washington wrecking crew. As a typical tourist the keeper was on that very narrow circular stairs leading to the Lady’s …
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Kickass and Intercepted Message

Attribution: MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper mysteriously linked into the following e-mail exchange.             ICE field agent: “We took him into custody at the Statue of Liberty. He had a chain saw and a barn shovel and claimed to be the POTUS fresh from having …
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