Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash When Worlds Collide: A Review of A Disturbance in the Force By Geoff Carter Own work based on unknown original creator, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Sitting in a crowded theater watching a movie is in many ways a solitary act. Viewers don’t—they’re not supposed to, at least—interact with each other during …
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Category:Social Commentary
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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The Decline and Fall of MAGASaurus Rex
Image by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter It rose from the murky depths of ignorance, hatred, and fear and has reigned supreme on the political landscape for eight years now, ravaging our democratic institutions, trampling voter rights, and terrifying all mainstream Republicans. It is an aggressive, ruthless, and voracious creature that consumes everything in its …
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter On a recent trip to New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, and as it turns out, the Land of Enlightenment (as a state which recently offered tuition-free college and legalized recreational marijuana), I was invited by my brother to accompany him on a visit to a local marijuana …
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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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Dialogues on Red State Hubris: Southern Inhospitality
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter This just in from the R dominated volunteer state: “Southern man, better keep your headDon’t forget what your good book saidSouthern change gonna come at lastNow your crosses are burning fastSouthern man I saw …
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Dialogues on Corrupting Influences: My War Was Better than your War
(Special Feature from ChatGPT: “AI, AI, AI, Ohhh…”) Sgt. Felicya Adams, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, Ross Douhat, conservative columnist for the New York Times, asks the question in his most recent column: Was Iraq a Worse …
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A Better Life
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We’re planning on taking a trip soon, driving out west through the rolling plains of Iowa and Nebraska, land of the eternal horizon, past the spectacular Colorado skyline and into the beautiful—and sometimes surreal—landscapes of New Mexico. It’s a long drive but a beautiful one. The first time …
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Dialogues on Bringing in the Outliers: All Politics is Local
Carol M. Highsmith , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Heads up: As I recall few can access these NY Times links, but I think some can. If not I’ll nutshell it: Hope springs, Dave. Dave, Thanks for sending this! …
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Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Americans across the spectrum were shocked, dumbfounded, and ultimately (like watching a rattlesnake) fascinated by ex-President Donald Trump’s social media post announcing that he was to be arrested on Tuesday and telling his followers that they should “Protest, take the nation back”—which was read by some as an …
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Kickass Has Been Hacked
בר, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the information that the keeper has apparently been “hacked” on Facebook, and since he is not sure what that means, he is appealing to Phyllis to save him from whatever nastiness is to follow. It is the keeper’s unsophisticated assumption that …
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Dialogues on Free-Range Teens: Wandering Through the Seventies
Jonas Dovydenas , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., Geoff Carter Hey bots, I ran across this article and it really resonated with my fuzzy memories of the seventies. I do think that our half of the boomer experience was nothing like …
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