Dialogues on Gilead Rising : Letters to the Court

Legoktm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Next up on the agenda, after SCOTUS dumps Roe, is a federal level statute banning abortion. What, say you? I thought the most cherished hope of conservatives was to return abortion authority to the states. After …
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Kickass and Steel Magnolias

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, like the keeper, comfortably acknowledges the “steel magnolia” character of women when it comes to running things, certainly the functioning of their own bodies as well as the absurd place of narcissistic males in such matters as reproduction and war. Affirmation came recently when the …
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Kickass and Misogyny

Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes          Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper in sorting through the emergence of the “Misogyny Monarchy” as it is being crafted by the US Supine Court according to hints about a coming decision that, in a Darwinian U-turn, will take the tribe back …
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Dialogues on Freedom from Choice: The Sleeping Giant Letters

Becker1999 from Grove City, OH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Dave S., Mark Mamerow, Mark Orlowski, Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Dadbots, After this week’s arguments over abortion in front of the SCOTUS, both the Washington Post and the NY Times ran articles discussing the potential political impacts if the Court decides, as it well …
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Kickass and Women’s Body Rights

Denali National Park and Preserve, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aware that the keeper made a career out of expressing himself, watched as he—the keeper, and Phyllis listened to the debate over renewing the practice of men—mostly old white men, telling women how they—women, must use their bodies …
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Kickass Gets a Vasectomy

 / C.Suthorn /  cc-by-sa-4.0 / commons.wikimedia.org By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has probably not made any more life altering decisions than most men but cites an incident way back when he was a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal and, in the mode of writing about everything, did a column for the Journal’s “Insight” magazine …
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The Good People of Texas

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter They say everything is bigger in Texas—the hats, the cars, the buildings, the population, the reputation—even the problems. This is the state that produced the larger-than-life personalities Willie Nelson, Matthew McConaughey, Larry McMurtry, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Buddy Holly—to name only a few. Texans have a lot to …
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