By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, says if Liz Cheney were a dog in a kennel and she was up for adoption, the keeper might give her a look, even though he—the keeper, already has what he considers the perfect dog—made of cast iron and forever tuned in to “sit and stay.” It is …
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Month:May 2021
Kickass Goes Republican Birding
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, watches as the keeper applies the Republican version of truth to his bird feeding efforts by identifying visiting starlings as orioles, sparrows as goldfinches, and chickadees as eagles. Though he can see with his own eyes what plainly plumed birds are visiting his balcony feeders, the keeper sees …
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Kickass and Flat-Earth Ignorance
See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, fresh from a wonderful family-filled Mother’s Day weekend, sadly acknowledge the seven people killed in the Colorado mass shooting—the 194th of the year; and note the inane Mother’s Day message from the NRA that …
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The Couch Potato’s Guide to Hard Times
Film Review of Borat Subsequent MovieFilm By Geoff Carter Historically, during times of hardship and duress, people have tended to look to movies as vehicles for escape and diversion. Musicals like 42nd Street and Dancing Down to Rio and Busby Berklee’s dance extravaganzas were quite popular with audiences during the Great Depression. While The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind, as well …
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Kickass Remembers Mama
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in saluting all mothers, and listening to him—the keeper, as he repeats the universal refrain that his was the best mother who—as he once wrote, would stand on two broken legs to make you a lunch so you could go fishing—on Mother’s Day. As with …
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Kickass in the Kitchen
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, says that something akin to gerrymandering is what has patterned evolution of the dog-human relationship down through the ages; and that explains how the deal that wolves made to stop eating humans in exchange for a pampered place around the campfire is kept in place by slobbery sentiment, …
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Kickass and “Easy-Open” Packaging
Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier from Bruxelles, Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, resisting his innate inclination to chew on things, is assisting the keeper in his campaign to protect people from packaging. No stats are available on how many people are injured or even die of frustration while attempting to …
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Kickass and the NFL Draft
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, anxiously assists the keeper in correcting the assumption that he—the keeper, has been drafted to play cornerback for the Green Bay Packers: That was Eric Stokes, not keeper “Bill” Stokes, and while the keeper would be willing to give it a go, if drafted, he is pretty sure …
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A Fair Shot
By Geoff Carter The dark days of the pandemic and the quarantine are not behind us yet, but things are looking up. Now that over 40% of Americans are now fully vaccinated against COVID, we are slowly moving back to normality. The Biden Administration has already passed “The Rescue Act”, providing direct pandemic relief to …
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Kickass Goes to the Circus
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is not much help to the keeper as he—the keeper encourages the Republicans to get their shot of Liz Cheney truth to avoid total herd stupidity. It is hard to believe that even one occasion of the truth would be such a problem for the McCarthy-Mitch gang, but …
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Kickass and Corporations-as-People
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be assisting the keeper in his efforts to instill just a smidgen of humanity and sensitivity into US corporations as they—the corporations, after having been designated by the Supreme Court as “people” for political purposes, seem unable to do anything except make money and avoid paying taxes. …
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Kickass and Aaron Rodgers
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is staying on the couch as the keeper grapples with the issue of Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, seen as a more serious problem by some Wisconsin residents than cheese-head hats or the price of Spotted Cow beer. The obvious solution is to give the entire state of Wisconsin …
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