Batman

With the new mask guidelines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Thursday, the COVID-19 pandemic feels like it’s nearing an end for many of us. I get my second Moderna shot next week, at which point my transformation into the little-known Batman supervillain Blood Clottus will be complete. (Okay, just...

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  • May 14, 2021

I used to occasionally argue with MAGAs before I realized I’d have better luck trying to convince Wile E. Coyote not to jump off the cliff in his Acme Batman Suit. He always jumps, and it always ends in disaster. I’ve never understood how you can spend more than a minute...

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  • May 2, 2021

I thought Schaden-Friday might slip away without a good dose of bad news for a bad, bad person. Ah, but it came through in the end to bite one of the most loathsome arses on God’s verdant vale of tears. Roger Stone may want to grab his blankie, because there...

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  • April 16, 2021
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that...

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  • December 5, 2020

In May of 1996, my middle son graduated high school. I had been hospitalized the Tuesday before his ceremony, because of a hereditary bleeding disorder, I have suffered from since age 34. I was due to be released from the hospital on Thursday the day before his graduation but I...

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  • October 5, 2020

Needless to say, this is appalling. https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1298820170891362304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw See? Kyle Rittenhouse simply wanted to help. He’s a good (i.e., white) boy deep down. I mean, we can understand Rittenhouse, right? He’s a vigilante! Like Batman! Gotham is corrupt, y’all! Tucker: How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided...

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  • August 27, 2020

There is a diary on here which is very good about Betsy No nothing and it is good. http://www.dailykos.com/… I am a parent, grandparent and great grandparent.  I know kids.   I have raised enough of them to know them. We know we have a shortage of teachers and we do...

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  • August 2, 2020

So much iconoclasty, so little time to election day. Darn all those racist targets and their problematic cultural frames, constructed from their siting and historical context, all with social and political mediation. Darn all those genocidal reckonings, darn that 400 years. “Chicago has two Columbus statues and a pillar donated...

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  • June 11, 2020

Reportedly, Donald Trump declines the wearing of a protective mask because either it will make him look silly, or he believes it will give the wrong message to the American public, be afraid. There is a dark history to men wearing masks, magicians, executioners, and thieves. The current president has...

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  • May 11, 2020

It may be irony, schadenfreude or coincidence but we are crossing paths at the intersection of politics and  Marvel or DC Comics.  We have a blustering Joker as Head of State, Mr. Freeze as his second, and an assortment of Two-faces, Riddlers and a top-hatted Penguin seeking to avoid his...

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  • February 12, 2020

You may remember Matt Whitaker as the bald dude who was Trump’s acting attorney general for a couple of months for some reason. No one really knew why. It sure remains a mystery to me, though. The only thing I can think of is that Trump was hoping to assemble an entire...

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  • December 7, 2019

If Donald Trump were Superman, Lois Lane would be in the hands of kidnappers.  One of the recurring themes in the plot line of superhero movies is their discretion and humility, all meant to protect their loved ones.  Donald Trump for obvious reasons, except the ones in his head, is...

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  • June 14, 2019

Last week in the U.K., Donald Trump gave two crackers interviews that drew a tremendous amount of criticism. First, he sat down with former America’s Got Talent judge and purported journalist Piers Morgan for what could only be described as the interview equivalent of an enraged pelican choking to death on...

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  • June 9, 2019

I became aware of comic books when I was not quite six years old (way back in 1969).  I clearly recall my first comic book was Marvel Comics the Incredible Hulk Issue #114.  It had the Incredible Hulk fighting both Sandman and the Mandarin.  I also got some other Marvel...

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  • November 13, 2018

“Holy Corruption, Batman!” As reported in the New York Times last week, 16 officers – many of them “white shirts” were formally charged (arraigned) in New York State Supreme Court in the Bronx with various crimes ranging from “fixing” tickets for friends and relatives all the way up to selling...

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  • October 31, 2011