Illustration by Michael DiMilo Digital Killed the Video Store: Review of Kim’s Video By Geoff Carter The documentary is one of the few cinematic genres that consistently defies expectations. It covers a huge range of content from the journalistic to the sublime, reconstructing history, muckraking corruption, exposing social ills, documenting human experience, or—as in the …
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Category:Social Commentary
Shameless
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter The world I grew up in has been turned on its head. Donald Trump, the presumed Republican presidential candidate has posted a video exalting a “unified Reich” in America. When I was a kid, Nazis used to be the bad guys. Joseph Alito, one of our Supreme Court …
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Full Measure
Artwork by Michael DiMilo (Originally posted on May 31, 2019 in Honor of our Veterans) By Geoff Carter Ah, Memorial Day: the harbinger of summer, the first family picnic, and the grill master’s opening day. Memorial Day also happens to be the holiday recognizing and honoring those who have made the ultimate sacrifice defending our …
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Dialogues on Artificial Unintelligence: Surfing the Technology Spiral
Attribution: Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Fellow pundits, You cannot call me any kind of expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI). But is that going to stop me from writing about it? Hell no! I just listened to an episode of …
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Attack of the Brain Worm Zombies
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last week, I wrote a column about a possible brain worm epidemic in Washington, D.C. Lately, ever since Robert Kennedy, Jr. revealed that this particular parasite had eaten a part of his brain, I have been wondering if he was the only politico who is suffering from this …
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Kickass Lets Phyllis Do the Work, Again!!
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in standing aside as Phyllis does most of the work, as usual. Photo by Bill Stokes See more at… The Bill Stokes Author Page
The Worms Crawl In….
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Just when it seemed as if current events and political discourse could not become any more surreal or absurd, a story broke that independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. revealed that at one point he had a parasitic worm that consumed part of his brain. He did not …
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Kickass and Species at War
Attribution: Kaleiteen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to help the keeper remember how humans in their grand conceit think of themselves as the most advanced species as they devote their greatest energies and resources to killing each other with unimaginable weaponry and viciousness, and have been doing so …
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Kickass and the “Meme” Rays
Attribution: Brunoresende29, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, allows the keeper this opportunity to warn those who exposed themselves to the current northern lights display that they may have inadvertently absorbed “meme” rays which causes them to boast insufferably about their spectacular view of the aurora borealis while flashing …
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Malpractice
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter A close family member is finishing up her first year of medical residency, and I am simply amazed at the sheer volume of knowledge and skills she has had to absorb in order to complete the process of being a doctor. She had to endure four years of …
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Not One of Us
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…” –(The Declaration of Independence) Right. These words were written by a slave owner …
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Kickass and Student Demonstrations
Attribution: uwdigitalcollections, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper as he recalls a bit of his experiences with student demonstrations, the first being when Willard Gonske climbed up into the country school’s lone pine tree and refused to come down. At issue was Willard’s pending discipline for …
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