Nick Ares, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s “Great Pumpkin” confusion in which he goes along with Linus and thinks that Halloween may be Christmas. With that circumstance in place, the keeper asks the Great Pumpkin to please bring him a bag of time so he …
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Category:Social Commentary
Dialogues on Lying Like a Rug: Tartuffe Goes to Washington
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter We should not be surprised by some level of hypocrisy from politicians. But the Herschel Walker abortion story is playing out at a higher level. Football hero & Trump devotee Walker is running in …
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The Hall of Shame
MN National Guard, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons I grew up in Wisconsin. One of my first childhood memories is sitting in the living room in front of an eighteen-inch television set watching the 1967 NFL Championship Game, better known as the Ice Bowl. I saw the final play of the game, Bart Starr’s winning …
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Dialogues on The American Dream: How to Take Candy from a Baby
Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul Carter, and Geoff Carter Several things jumped out at me re this $240M scam our diligent FBI uncovered: Department of Justice Report on Feeding Our Families Scandal Watch out: This will be the poster child for Tucker and Fox …
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More or Less Equal Before the Law
Deval Kulshrestha, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons “We are a government of laws, not of men.” John Adams said that. “All men are created equal.” Thomas Jefferson said that—in The Declaration of Independence. Atticus Finch, in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, said “In this country, our courts are the great levelers.” These are all fine …
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Who Are These People?
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” These immortal words of President John F. Kennedy became the inspiration for tens of thousands of young Americans. To them, and many others, these words stood for selflessness, sacrifice, and a …
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The Queen is Dead
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last Thursday, at the ripe old age of ninety-six, after a reign of seventy years, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. The news of her passing has (in a gross understatement) dominated the news. She had been the queen since her coronation in 1952, the same year that The Jackie …
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Winter is Coming
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I went to a funeral service of an old friend last week. He was a few years older than me but only a few. We hung out and partied quite a bit when we were younger. His death was the latest in an increasing succession of old acquaintances …
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Kickass Forgives Debt
PatilRohan0, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is joining the debt-forgiveness crowd by forgiving the debt owned to him by a Texas individual as a result of playing pinochle for money while both were members of an Infantry I&R platoon in Korea some 70 years …
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To Infinity and Before
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Over the past few weeks, as the recently deployed James Webb Space Telescope began transmitting interstellar photographs back to Earth, mankind has gotten its deepest and most comprehensive look into the far depths of the universe. The photo “First Deep Field”, an …
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Dialogues on Victory Dancing: Letters from the End Zone
Tennessee Titans, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter ‘bots: A break from the heavy things our conscious requires us to report on. Probably not on your radar, but I’ve been following the US team—Rose Lavelle continues to excel (UW grad)—a …
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A Patch of Blue
By Geoff Carter Artwork by Michael DiMilo These past few years have not been good for America. A deliberately planned insurrection at the Capitol Building on January 6th, 2021 nearly resulted in a successful coup. A million Americans died (a significant number of them needlessly) during the Covid pandemic—which is even now still lingering in …
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