Bill Slankard
@billslankard.bsky.social
Retired. Anti-fascist. Member of Mensa, SABR, ACLU, LWV.
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@billslankard.bsky.social
Retired. Anti-fascist. Member of Mensa, SABR, ACLU, LWV.
Albert Alligator says “Pfoof! No! Him was gonna vote one way an’ me th’ other..so both of us gonna stay home…it’ll be equal either way.” Pogo Possum responds “For Shame! Vote! It ain’t only a right, it’s a duty!”
From the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly.
04.11.2025 13:55 — 👍 207 🔁 60 💬 2 📌 1
“The United States was getting the substance of power but giving up the style.”
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/decline-an...
I predict Trump's masked Gestapo will be out in full force on the next election day, scooping up anyone not white (and some who are) and at the very least detaining them until after the election.
09.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The king is a fink!
07.07.2025 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Listening to the convicted felon talk reminds me of Professor Irwin Corey.
17.05.2025 18:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I love the internet
03.05.2025 21:14 — 👍 10415 🔁 2323 💬 226 📌 115Then I'm in. Please let me know how to get the money to you (PayPal?, check with address?, etc).
bill.slankard@gmail.com
If you have more than one set, I am interested.
16.04.2025 13:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Try the series Hornblower's Legacy, by James Keffer. I thought the first book, Hornblower and the Island, was very good, and I'm enjoying the next one - Brewer's Luck.
13.04.2025 21:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Watched Black Bag at a genuine movie theater with my wife this afternoon. Very good film. If you like spy thrillers, without too many gunfights (none - sort of) or explosions (one), you may like this.
12.04.2025 01:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Did Nero play golf?
06.04.2025 11:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“It’s such an old-fashioned term but a beautiful term: groceries. It sort of says a bag with different things in it."
-- Daniel Webster [not]
These words should not be flushed from our vocabulary!
11.03.2025 16:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump’s very own Laffer curve:
06.02.2025 15:29 — 👍 757 🔁 140 💬 29 📌 11That's the first Doc Savage novel I read. I saw the book in a used book store over 50 years ago. It caught my eye, and I've been a Doc fan ever since. My condolences to his family.
05.02.2025 18:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preparing for the Felon-in-Chief.
19.01.2025 18:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
