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Author: John Kaufman

And the very next day, the House Speaker resigns . . .

Perhaps inspired by a genuinely religious (that is, generally liberal) sermon, House Speaker John Boehner decided the next morning he had nothing […]

September 26, 2015 Politics, Religion

Congress gets schooled in some liberal religion

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At present the “golden rule” of many in Congress is he who has the most gold is the most to […]

September 24, 2015 Politics, Religion

Rumple Oxbridge: “In Ignorance We Cannot Trust”

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By Rumple Oxbridge (imaginary rhymer-in-residence) What Gov. Walker learned, at last, is this: ignorance is only bliss if ignorance is […]

September 23, 2015 Political Ditties by Rumple Oxbridge

Poem for the International Day of Peace

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“International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”) is observed around the world each year on 21 September. Established in […]

September 21, 2015 Poetry

Gov. Scott Walker bows out of presidential race

If it’s in the NY Times it must be true: Gov. Scott Walker is throwing in the towel. […]

September 21, 2015 Politics

Reflections on “postmodernism” upon the death of Professor Ihab Hassan

Though perhaps only of interest to students of American literature, the death this past week of former UW-Milwaukee […]

September 15, 2015 Literary

Riverboat Sam: “Robot Love Not Worth It”

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By Riverboat Sam, The Pacific’s technical specialist/digital skeptic In my quite distant prime, if a man wanted to buy […]

June 11, 2015 Satires

An Anti-War Dog Speaks Out

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(Photo in the public domain in the United States: Hulton Archive/Getty Images. “American actor Gloria Swanson (1899 – 1983) […]

May 21, 2015 Militarism, Satires

Rumple Oxbridge: “A Controversial Poem”

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(Photo copyright: Public Domain–U.S.) By Rumple Oxbridge, a man of few and controversial words, a few of which rhyme […]

May 18, 2015 Journalism, Political Ditties by Rumple Oxbridge

Forget the “Center.” We Need Conviction & Truth

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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is […]

May 13, 2015 Journalism

Riverboat Sam: To “Blog” is to Vomit

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By Riverboat Sam, The Pacific’s “technical specialist” I am not against the newfangled on principle; typewriting seemed to me a […]

May 11, 2015 Anti-Tech, Satires

WI Republicans in Wonderland

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(Drawing by John Tenniel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) “It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all […]

May 8, 2015 Uncategorized

Cartoon: “Mountaintop Decapitation” by Khalil Bendib

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(Khalil Bendib is OtherWords’ cartoonist. OtherWords.org ) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/

May 6, 2015 Satires

T.S. Swanky: “Motherhood and Monopoly” [Satire]

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(Mother’s Day card, 1916 by Northern Pacific Railway (eBay item card front card back) [Public domain], via Wikimedia […]

May 5, 2015 Satires

Let Them Eat Lobster

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(Photo by schooner guest [Attribution], via Wikimedia Commons) By John Kaufman Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled Assembly is assembling two bills […]

May 2, 2015 Uncategorized

The War On Hillary’s Ovaries

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(Photo by U.S Government [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010. Photo taken at […]

April 29, 2015 Uncategorized

Earth Calls the Governor [Satire]

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(Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckl [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) By John […]

April 24, 2015 Satires

“An Eclogue” by Kenyon Cox

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(“An Eclogue” by Kenyon Cox 1856-1919 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.)

April 22, 2015 Art, Uncategorized

Wisconsin: An Investor-Owned State

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(Cartoon by Udo J. Keppler (a.k.a. Joseph Keppler, Jr.; 1872-1956), cartoonist [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. “Wall Street […]

April 17, 2015 Uncategorized

“Dairyland” is Trending Obsolete [Satire]

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[Photo by EPA, Public Domain] By Homer Coldfield (fictional farm & rural columnist *) I’ve been itching to […]

April 14, 2015 Satires

Rumple Oxbridge: “Ode to Jack, My Apolitical Dog”

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(Photo by Jocelyn Augustino (This image is from the FEMA Photo Library.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) By Rumple […]

April 13, 2015 Political Ditties by Rumple Oxbridge

Riverboat Sam: “A Yankee in King Scott Walker’s Court”

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[Photo by Underwood & Underwood (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons] By Riverboat Sam As the “technical specialist” of […]

April 9, 2015 Satires

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