Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the rest of the Milwaukee world in knowing that the keeper will never learn how to spell Giannis Antetokounmpo, the name of the Bucks star who led the team to the NBA championship; this despite the …
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Month:July 2021
Kickass and Male Ego Provider
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that it is not uncommon to find the keeper insufferable, but a recent example tested the patience of even a cast iron dog. In his defense, the keeper notes the decreasing opportunities for someone in his age group to exercise …
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Kickass Loses and Finds
Paul Gorbould, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper as he—the keeper spends ever increasing blocks of time looking for something he has either misplaced or deliberately put away in a “safe” place. There are cross-species precedents for such non-productive behavior: squirrels looking for …
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The Couch Potato’s Guide to the Best of the Best: The Films of Martin Scorsese
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons His films are deeply embedded into the fabric or our culture. From the grittiness of Mean Streets, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver to the gentility of The Age of Innocence, the black humor of The King of Comedy, or the epic scope of The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese has left a …
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Kickass and Evolutionary Top Spot
Pets Adviser from Brooklyn, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to sort through the keeper’s observation that if humans had not evolved as dominant, some other species might be setting human hunting quotas and deciding other human population control issues. Had wolves evolved to the top spot, …
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Kickass and Little Brother
Yellowstone National Park from Yellowstone NP, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is trying to help the keeper as he—the keeper, works through the role of older brother as his younger brother Orv and his wife Shirley make the transition from the home farm up in the northwestern …
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Unnatural Selection
Photo by Francesco Califano on Unsplash By Geoff Carter This has been a period of unparalleled prosperity in this country—for the few. While the average wage-earner’s take home pay has stagnated, giving them less real buying power than it did even ten years ago, a few rich and powerful citizens have seen their fortunes grow almost exponentially. According …
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Kickass and Republican’s Covid Embrace
Lowenburg at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, attempts to help the keeper as he offers to assist the Repubs in their embrace of the Covid pandemic as a symbol of patriotism and independence. Led by the likes of the idiot Florida governor, the Repubs resistance to …
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Kickass Goes Into Space
NASA/Frank Michaux, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on the keeper’s contention that even the dullest human observers must conclude that billionaires flying off into space means that eventually the rich one-percenters—having destroyed planet Earth for profit, will occupy other planets while most of the populace will ride …
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Kickass and 1953 All-Star Game 2021
Picture by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has no real choice about where to go with his posting on the day of MLB’s All-Star game, and so he goes there: back to 1953 in Cincinnati when he was a young-post Korea-soldier and was down on Crosley Field-pre-game-by …
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The Couch Potato’s Guide to the Best of the Best: The Films of the Coen Brothers
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter From their very first production, the quirky genre-bending thriller, Blood Simple, to their latest film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, an anthology of short films simultaneously deifying and lampooning the Western genre, the Coen Brothers have made films that are—to say the very least—unpredictable. Their stories have …
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Kickass Drinks Water
Photo by PB’s Photography from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis ended their down-the-Mississippi excursion when the keeper experienced a sudden debilitating state of dehydration that left him as incapacitated as he has ever been from too much liquid intake. It was an embarrassing event that involved rescue and recovery at …
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