Ransom Recycles

Life Made Better is about human relations and the impact of the most delicious, decadent Christmas dessert. Step families are...challenging, and that's a really diplomatic way of describing them. I could probably use a more colorful word. Filled with conflict, contention, and pain in the ass people who are absolutely not related by genetics, history, or love attempting to live together under one roof, it's amazing any of them survive the experience. I made this card for my favorite aunt who broke the ice by warming an obstinate teenage girl's heart with fudge. My aunt was the fudge maker of the family. No one else could make fudge like this woman. Any time my dysfunctional family needed to be diffused or distracted, she was right there in the kitchen, talking and laughing, stirring and yelling, "Does anyone want to lick the pan?" However, this was not just a Christmas event as my family was in need of fudge therapy way more often than once a year. Every time I...

Satanic Santa illustrates the premise that if Santa gave the American people Trump as a gift then he must be Satan disguised as a Republican. Santa...Satan...it's an anagram! Ah, it's all so clear now. The country is going to hell with a demonic-appointed sexist, racist, corrupt con-artist at the helm. VOTE 2020!! Size: 5 x 7 inches approximately, folded front cover inside back cover

Supremacist Santa addresses the disappointment sane Americans have with the current president. If Trump was the Christmas gift, then Santa is a Neo-Nazi Republican. The non-voters along with the Russians are responsible for allowing this sexist, racist, corrupt con-artist to get elected. Trump's election to the highest political office emboldened white supremacists to crawl out from under their rocks and spew racist hate all over the country. This is an atrocity. We need a president who is a leader for all, a defender of equality, a practitioner of respect, and has a functioning brain. Vote Trump out in November! Size: 5 x 7 inches approximately, bound front cover inside back cover

The Secrets of St. Nick highlights the mythology of Santa Claus. Most children and adults have heard of Santa Claus - fat, friendly, white guy who bring presents to well-deserving children. He has a herd of flying reindeer, a really cool, snow-covered house and workshop somewhere up north, and a sweet wife who makes him cookies. We make the assumption throughout our lives he was a nice guy who lived a simple life role modeling extreme generosity. I made the mistake of doing some research and can't get the horror out of my head. Did you know Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas of Myra, used to cast demons out of possessed trees? I'm still questioning how a tree becomes demonic and what kind of evil selects foliage for possession? I wonder how Santa exorcised the tree? Was it like in the movies   where one throws holy water on the afflicted producing screams and torments? Did the ungodly pine have a demonic entourage and a sleuth of evil dancing bear familiars? Was the demon cast out ...

Better Late Than Never is my hope for the immediate future: a restored democracy and the end of Trumpism with the con-artist and all his minions in prison. Yes, I know, it's a tall order. Santa must have been on vacation for the last five years because I for one, along with all of my friends, have asked for this every Christmas since 2015 and he failed miserably at delivery. For the last three years instead we've received a government run by a sexist, racist, corrupt, self-serving pathological liar, a Republican Senate that supports everything he does in defiance of the Constitution, children in cages, a rapist for a Supreme Court justice, and a whole lot of white supremacy. Then when we thought things couldn't get any worse we are given a pandemic, rampant unemployment, and a failing economy system. And lies. Lots of lies. More lies. Santa has failed America, but, hey, I'm forgiving! Well, sometimes...I'll give him another chance. He needs to get his butt off of ...

Cookies illustrates the joys of eating cookies at Christmas. Indulgence is the real meaning of Christmas.... Size: 4 x 5 1/2 inches approximately, folded front cover inside back cover

A Coronavirus Christmas challenges the "alternative facts" Trump has promoted in order to bullshit Americans into believing the coronavirus would be short-lived and inconsequential in a desperate attempt to win re-election. His self-serving behaviors have risked the lives of too many as he spread misinformation and vomit-like babbling of nonsense instead of expedient and efficient management of the crisis. Size:  5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches approximately, bound front cover inside back cover