Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Devotee-DeBusherre Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter This got wordy, I’ll try and distill it first. Though I don’t like the term for the campaign—bullying—(I think many scoff at it saying…”Well (male, gravel pitched, voice),…it’s a tough world out …
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Category:Social Commentary
The Victimhood Olympics
Stearns, Junius Brutus, 1810-1885, artist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Reply to The Oppression Olympics Featuring The Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Mark, You might have titled this bot essay, The Victimhood Olympics. There must have been a theater director mass shaming recently about Native American …
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Kickass Takes on Football
B, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that the saturation of football in American culture is little improvement over the collective coliseum days of Rome, and in some respects is justifiably compared to dog and cock fighting as organized spectator sports. Structured by billionaire overlord …
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2022: A Year of Extremes
Photo by Planet Volumes on Unsplash By Geoff Carter Last week, just before Christmas, we were bombarded with news of a possible “cyclone bomb”, a megablizzard that could bring record snowfall, dangerous windchill temperatures, and hazardous travel conditions. We were warned. Winter Storm Eliot was bearing down on us. And, for some parts of the country, it was …
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The Oppression Olympics
NASA Ames, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Mark Mamerow NASA’s new telescope is an amazing scientific and engineering accomplishment, but a groundswell of opposition has arisen to the naming of the telescope after James Webb. He directed NASA in the 1960s and led the agency in its successful quest to mount manned missions to the …
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Happy Holidays from The Pen in Hand Blog!!
Have a beautiful and Festive Holiday… Artwork by Michael DiMilo From Geoff Carter, Bill Stokes, Michael DiMilo, the Fabulous Dadbots, and all the other contributors to The Pen in Hand Blog!! Merry Christmas!! Happy Hannukah!! Happy Kwanzaa!! Happy Yule!! Merry Festivus!!
Nightmare on Main Street
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter As I get older, I occasionally catch myself repeating things. Maybe a story, maybe a joke, maybe a memory, maybe a point. That’s just part of aging—one of its inevitabilities. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about gun violence titled What’s It Going to Take? inspired by …
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Dialogues on the Primary Primary: Heading South
formulanone from Huntsville, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark. M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter The NY Times had this to say about the Dems primary sequencing change: “In 2008, Biden drew less than 1 percent of the vote in Iowa and dropped …
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Kickass and Bad Idea Pickup
Ropable, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper and Phyllis in formation of the Bad Idea Trash Pickup (BITP) which is to function on both the international and domestic levels, heading first, of course to Russia where Putin’s war idea, along with Putin himself, will be …
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Kickass and Bras
Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, comments that it is not often, if ever, that the keeper is shut out of the conversational flow, but it occurred yesterday when Phyllis entertained her two granddaughters–Alexis and Taylor, and the subject unaccountably turned to bras. The discussion seemed to go …
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The Slow Grind
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine” –Ecclesiastes 8:10 Last week, nearly two years after the attack on the Capitol Building, a jury found Stewart Rhodes, leader of the far-right extremist Oath Keepers militia, guilty of seditious conspiracy, obstructing certification of the election, and destroying …
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Oh, Christmas Tree
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter (Originally posted in December, 2019) Each year, in the family holiday tradition, my wife and I venture out to buy our Christmas tree. We’re lucky enough to live across the street from a big tree lot so we don’t have very far to go—we can walk right over. …
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