Category:Social Commentary

Kickass and Packaging

Posted on July 30, 2022Updated on July 30, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Environment, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

User:Nino Barbieri, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s carefully researched conclusion that the end of the “civilized” world will not come from running out of water or food, or by crashing into another planet, or by burning up in wildfires, or by drowning in floods, …
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Dialogues on Busting the Filibuster: Letters from Across the State Line

Posted on July 27, 2022Updated on July 27, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Law, Reproductive Rights, Social Commentary

formulanone from Huntsville, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Mark O., Dave S., Paul C., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Bots, An additional political note on Roe -v- Wade if you can stomach it. Our President Biker-in-chief has declared that he’s willing to support an exception to the …
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Crime and Punishment

Posted on July 21, 2022Updated on July 21, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Capitol Riot, Michael DiMilo, Politics, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter When Bernie Madoff, the notorious architect of one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in American history, was found guilty and sentenced to over one hundred and fifty years in prison for swindling his clients out of billions of dollars, Americans breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed as …
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Helping Hands

Posted on July 14, 2022Updated on July 14, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Activism, Law, Michael DiMilo, Reproductive Rights, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Since the recent—but not unexpected—Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe -v- Wade, American citizens have been scrambling to come to terms with the consequences and implications of this new and deeply disturbing ruling. The nation is reeling in shock. After all, it’s the first time that the highest …
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Kickass and Life Expectancy

Posted on July 14, 2022Updated on July 14, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Health, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Max Roser, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, concedes that the keeper has qualified to be an authority on “life expectancy” simply by living a long time; and therefor has a right—the audacity– to seek expansion of “life expectations” beyond simply counting time but to also include acceptance of …
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Kickass and Space Telescope

Posted on July 12, 2022Updated on July 12, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Science, Social Commentary

NASA and the European Space Agency., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s enthusiasm for initial use of the James Webb space telescope allowing us to see 4.6 billion years into the past, is moderated by our utter failure to see even one minute into the …
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Kickass and Facial Hair

Posted on July 11, 2022Updated on July 11, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Jorgenson, Nils C. (1858–1926), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s recent experience with facial hair ended with him shaving off his month-old beard and retaining only the mustache that he has lived with most of his life. While the beard was beginning to make him …
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Kickass and the Shooter

Posted on July 7, 2022Updated on July 7, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Guns, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Photo by Joe on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, frequently has suggestions for the keeper in maintaining a degree of relevance in his daily ranting, but he comes up empty with the fact that Robert E. Crimo III came within several miles of the keeper and Phyllis’s residence following Crimo’s unconscionable AK …
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Dialogues on Supreme Injustice: Letters from the Majority

Posted on June 29, 2022Updated on June 29, 2022by Mark MamerowCategories:Law, Politics, Reproductive Rights, Social Commentary

Elvert Barnes from Silver Spring MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave O., Mark O., Paul C., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Hello Bots, Had no idea just how adrift the ‘progressive’ state of fighting Bob is on this issue: Politico: Abortion Laws by State –Dave Time to …
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Kickass and Evolution Reversal

Posted on June 27, 2022Updated on June 27, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Reproductive Rights, Social Commentary

Baccharus, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s contention that as the Supreme Court leads the evolutionary U-turn back to the dark ages, it will only be a matter of time until all women are forced to have long hair for the convenience of men who …
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Dialogues on Criminal Negligence: An Apology to Our Children

Posted on June 10, 2022Updated on June 10, 2022by Mark MamerowCategories:Guns, Social Commentary

VOA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Yeesh…. come back from my joyful, gabby, Tuesday “Slacker Ride” awash with endorphins and 14 young kids are dead in Uvalde, TX . Just passing on the Steve Kerr’s commendable rant—he is in Texas tonight …
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The Ugliest Americans

Posted on June 9, 2022Updated on June 9, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Michael DiMilo, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter The novel The Ugly American, by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, was an absolute sensation when it came out in 1958. The book was a series of vignettes detailing the general contempt with which American diplomats and citizens treated indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia. The term “ugly American” originally …
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