Attribution: SecretName101, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., and Geoff Carter Dialogues on the Saga of KamaTim: Good Times at the DNC The Harris campaign communications strategy is pretty simple, Orange Man Bad. Somebody counted (150) mentions of “Trump” in the campaign platform.People are rightly …
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Family Values
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter During campaign season, the term “family values” is thrown around like confetti at a ticker-tape parade. Depending on who is using it, the term can encompass anything from banning books, condemning same-sex marriage, or reviling immigrants to lowering middle-class taxes, installing universal healthcare to extolling reproductive rights. In …
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Dialogues on the Florida GOP: A Visit to the Elephant Graveyard
Illustration by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter The “abortion issue” rubber is about to hit the road in Florida. Their state Supreme Court just made two rulings: 1) Upholding the 6-week limit passed last year by the FL legislature, and signed …
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Dialogues on Right To Privacy Pirates: The War on Women
Attribution: Charles Edward Miller from Chicago, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Mark O., Dave S., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter I recently was answering an innocent worker survey. The first question asked for my gender and was very pc, providing about a dozen options, including …
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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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Kickass and Unnatural Selection
Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in noting the anniversary of one of the more egregious indications that the human species is destined to do itself in by unnatural selection whereby tribal decisions are made by the …
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Dialogues from the Florida Swamps: Battle of the Lizard Kings
The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Ron DeSantis was looking to make a pretty good run for the Presidency. But his campaign is faltering, and he is painting himself into a corner with …
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Kickass on Being a Woman
National Museum of American History , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper in one of those far-ranging discussions with Phyllis, admitted that he does not have the character attributes to make it in life as a woman. Far from it, in fact, as he considers what …
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True Colors
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” –Plato “Despotic power is always accompanied by the corruption of morality.” –Lord Acton American politics has been devolving over the last decade or so. Discourse has become so gridlocked, it’s become nearly impossible for our two major …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Film Review of “Women Talking”
Photo by Justin Campbell on Unsplash Strong Words: Film Review of Women Talking By Geoff Carter Language not only defines reality; it constructs reality, forming the narratives that are the lanes through which we navigate our world. Finding names for subtleties of emotions, relationships, and belief helps in the understanding of the concepts underlying the words. Language also …
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Kickass and Women Head Chips
Feline_identifying_microchip.JPG: Joelmills derivative work: Hundehalter, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, says the keeper has inside dope that the Repubs are pushing a plan to have transmitting computer chips inserted into the scalps of women as a means of further controlling their behavior, as in how they bake a …
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Kickass and Men Vote Response
InvadingInvader, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that fast on the heels of the keeper’s campaign to deny men the right to vote in all future elections, comes a cascade of complaints–from men, who say that use of the heavy-duty “fly” swatter as an enforcement tool invades men’s …
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