Elvis L., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots Mark Mamerow, Dave S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Hey Bots, Check this out: Singing Putin: Blueberry Hill Strong and attractive… Mark M. Martial law!! Karaoke!! We must take Blueberry Hill!! –Geoff The Daily Kos: Back in 1982 I was dealing acid at …
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Dialogues on an Unhinged Mind: Letters from the Front
BakeNecko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark Mamerow, Dave. S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Bots, The EU and the US have frozen the assets of the Russian Central Bank, and this – along with numerous corporate sanctions – is tanking the ruble. The US is cutting off Russian …
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Kickass and Full Service
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper renews his membership in the club of old guys who once worked in a “filling” station, by joining the chorus of “five—or was it six, gallons of gas for a dollar;” and asking for the gas order only after having washed …
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Kickass and the Crossing Guard
Gillfoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s long-range view of the crossing guard down on the corner gives him—the keeper, an opportunity to witness one of countless examples of the Human race devising and using a means to blend conflicting interests to the benefit of …
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This Aggression Will Not Stand, Man
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In the cult film classic, The Big Lebowski, the Dude, its laconic anti-hero, complains to the other Lebowski—the Big Lebowski, the rich one—that he, the Dude, has been robbed and beaten up by thugs who had mistook him for the other Lebowski. The Dude is neither rich nor powerful, …
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One Summer: Two Worlds
Film Review of Summer of Soul Gind2005, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons August 15, 1969, marked a number of turning points in American culture. It was a watershed moment for the youth counterculture. The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival began near the tiny town of Bethel, New York. Over the next four days, more than …
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Burning Down the House
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Teachers are losing control of their classrooms, and it’s not because students have gone wild. No, the kids are not taking over the schools. They’re just fine. In fact, a student revolution wouldn’t be nearly as disturbing as what’s really going on. It’s the Republicans that are attacking …
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Kickass and World Mother
Photo by Evgeni Tcherkasski on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, again endorses the keeper’s call for the creation of a no-nonsense “World Mother” with tribal authority to take the likes of Putin by the back of the neck and bang his head against the wall until he stops acting as the playground bully. So long …
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Kickass and the VA Waiting Room
Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass ,the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in offering the following vary short play entitled “Waiting With Old Vets.” Scene: Waiting room at VA West. The keeper enters from stage left; and retrieves number 39 from the lab scheduling device as one of …
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Kickass and TGIF
Jatayou, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation of the changing impact of cultural fixtures as they relate to age, such as “TGIF” now being something quite different than it once was for the keeper’s crowd of vintage has-beens. Once the keeper and his ilk joined …
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Spin Party
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I went to a little get-together at my in-laws the other night. Since we’ve all been suffering from post-Covid burnout (although I guess it’s technically not post-Covid—not yet), they decided to invite a few friends over for drinks, and—since my brother-in-law Michael is an avowed Abraham Lincoln aficionado, …
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