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A coat of arms

Unus pro omnibus Omnes pro uno This display came by me on my Facebook feed this morning; as a grandson of Switzerland I found it offensive (and, by the way, inaccurate): (#1) From the Holy Roman Empire...

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Warnings

Passed on by John McIntyre on Facebook yesterday, this Jim Benton cartoon: (#1) It’s all the fault of the Cassandras; they should have made us believe them, they shouldn’t have let us not believe them...

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Flagging DEI

(These are rough times, and I’m going to use some very rough language; I think the world would be a better place if we all just got comfortable with this language — and what it conveys — but I...

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Today’s magnificent pun

[In the constant upheavals of my life and the world around me, I’m now just picking random stuff to post about, from the 60 or 70 items in my ever-expanding queue — whatever catches my fancy at the...

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Vending-machine objects of desire

[Naked men making love, so not to everyone’s taste (but so carefully done it can appear on a book cover, so no alarm bells)] Briefly noted: a clever photo (attributed on Pinterest to male photographer...

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Sol is secretly queer

It’s Cinco de Mayo today, but this posting has precious little Mexican content; don’t let that keep you from your celebrations, whatever they are. I had intentions to cook up a homey Mexican pozole...

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Appliances in therapy

Today’s Bizarro is a Psychiatrist cartoon done with common kitchen appliances: a tea kettle and a coffee percolator sit on a couch in couples therapy, with a toaster therapist: (#1) Wayno’s title,...

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Gigantic cylinders

(A good bit that’s totally unsuitable, in subject matter and language, for kids and the sexually modest) This posting started out on 5/21 as two separate postings, each about extraordinary size, about...

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A rose for Sharon

An occasional poem (in free verse) for my friend Sharon on her recent birthday, wrapped up in the calendar, the female body, and plants and their sexual symbolisms, with photos. The poem first, then...

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Visual negations

This morning on Facebook, Otto Santa Ana added a temporary profile picture: The X NO KINGS signage, taking us into the territory of  “double negation”, since both the X and the NO of NO KINGS convey a...

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