Photo by Francesco Ungaro from Pexels Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots Mark Mamerow, Dave. S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Hello Bots, I found this article fascinating in an almost schadenfreude sort of way… (taking pleasure in other’s woes…usually an enemy or excessively privileged one…but not always—no one in our respective purviews is immune from schadenfreude). So many animals…and …
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Category:Social Commentary
Mighty Love
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In her novel Surfacing, Margaret Atwood wrote “The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them, there ought to be as many for love.” She‘s probably right, although what passes for love today might not be as important to us as snow was for the …
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Dialogues on the State of the Unions: Letters from a Closed Shop
Artwork by Micheal DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark Mamerow, Dave S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Time for balanced reporting. And I’m not sure anyone has actually said the fall of the unions was no fault of the unions….but if they are even thinking it—ya’ll better duck for cover. Though I’ve done no …
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Kickass is on the Floor
Westmoquette, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper joined Phyllis in a “strength exercise” class in which instructor Jo demonstrated how to wake up little-used muscles, among them the ones used to get up off the floor when you find yourself down there, either by intention …
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Kickass and Pence Chasing Cars
DonkeyHotey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that Pence is like a dog that suddenly develops the habit of chasing cars, but only those in funeral processions. Pence broke from his solid training to sit-and-stay–even in a burning building–when a gaudy political funeral procession …
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Dialogues on Scaling the Wall: Letters from the Fortress
A gated community, Conyer by N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots Mark Mamerow, Dave. S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Bots: As pledged. Guardian article link on increasingly polarized US of A. I was first going to let you read it, send my takes separate…(skip to link now if …
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Cold Hands, Warm Hearts
Artwork by Micheal DiMilo By Geoff Carter We found a charming handmade invitation in our mailbox last Saturday morning inviting us to a Weenie Roast at one of our neighbor’s homes that evening. Despite the forecast for temperatures in the teens, we were excited to get out and do some socializing—any socializing. So, we bundled up, walked …
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Dialogues on the Art of Stonewalling: The Average Joe Letters
President Joe Biden Talks on Phone with W.Va. Sen. Joe ManchinThe White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots By Mark Mamerow, Dave. S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Bots, Minnesota Mark had some provocative comments that didn’t make the final cut of our discussion of the BBB standoff. I …
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The Bright Side
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Over the two years that I’ve been writing my weekly blog posts, it seems that there has very rarely been anything positive to write about. Between the January 6th insurrection, the continuing pandemic, the rising gun violence and reckless driving fatalities in our city, and various other sundry crises—including the rise of …
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Sinking
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In the last couple weeks, spring seed catalogs have been starting to appear in the mailbox. This is usually the time to start thinking about spring and planning the garden, but it’s the middle of winter. Nights are long, cold, and bleak. Imagining a green and bountiful backyard …
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Kickass With His Own Eyes
Tyler Merbler from USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having researched the growing inclination of people to put their own spin on things they see “with their own eyes,” suggests that in the interest of lessening the political divide, the following be accepted as …
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Boil Over
Nayan j Nath, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Mark Mamerow Anybody who’s spent any time in the kitchen has experienced a pot boiling over. You fill the kettle with water, add the pasta, cover the pot, set it on the stove, and turn up the heat. Then the phone rings, or you check the …
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