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January 16, 2025

Dinner for one.

Photo and painting by Pam. 2019. (published 2025) Continue reading

Arts and Leisure, Social and Political Commentary

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January 6, 2024

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. The Wages of Righteousness. (Repost)

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February 24, 2022

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Rock and Baton.

A man cannot tell when he seeth men proceed against him by violence whether they intend his death or not. Thomas Hobbes, A.P. Martinich and Brian Battiste, Eds, Leviathan, Broadview, 2011. Part I, Chapter XIV, 8. p 129. Continue reading

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January 17, 2022

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. The CDC reports an alarming number of repetitive strain injuries during the Finger-Wagging pandemic.

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Pam-Toons, Social and Political Commentary

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January 17, 2022

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Covid 5896BC (Repost, 7 Nov 2020)

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September 21, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Cell Phone Chain Gang. (Repost from Oct. 18, 2020)

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September 18, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Ya gotta grab somethin’

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September 18, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. There’s a Reason It’s Called a Fairy Tale.

What REALLY happened to the boy who cried, The Emperor has no clothes! The Emperor’s New Clothes Continue reading

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January 23, 2021

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. What’s Your Sign?

The central image is a pencil sketch modelled on a photo of three children who died of starvation in Russia, 1921.**(see citation) Carnetarian, 20 Jan. – 18 Feb.; Pescatarian 18 Feb. – 20 Mar.; Pollotarian 21 Mar. – 20 Apr.; Ovo-Vegetarian 21 Apr. – 21 May; Ovo-Lacto-Vegetarian 21 May – 21 June; Lacto-Vegetarian 22 June Continue reading

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December 19, 2020

Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Paranormal Activism. (scroll past image)

When you deny my ‘lived experience’, you deny my existence! We, the undersigned, petition our flesh and bone (zombies excluded) oppressors to recognize the following, Article 1. We are beings who refer to ourselves as ghosts. All other terms of reference such as ghouls (a misnomer), spirits, phantoms, spectres, apparitions, wraiths, and especially the highly Continue reading

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