Kevin Halstead from Chicago, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, awaiting his lifetime award for hanging with the keeper through thick and thin—thinner and thinnest, reports that he—the keeper, and Phyllis are using some of Wisconsin’s natural attributes to assist them through the Covid isolation that followed their return from Alaska/Canada travels.
Today, for example, in will be Wisconsin’s contrary weather which is predicted to contain unpleasant surprises for almost everyone: obviously staying cooped up at home makes sense under those circumstances even if you do not have Covid.
As a means of checking back into the political scene, it comes as hair-shirt comfort for the keeper and Phyllis to learn that the state still has a flat-earth senator who sleeps with the tooth fairy; and a former state supreme court justice who is actively working at lobotomizing the citizenry into accepting a minority representative legislature in Madison.
From their 5th floor residence, the keeper and Phyllis have a distant view of the Capitol dome; and now in their Covid confinement, they find it infinitely depressing to gaze across Madison’s liberal west side to the place where Wisconsin’s once deservedly proud reputation has been cooked down to a watery gruel for greedy perverted gourmands.
The Covid symptoms for the keeper and Phyllis remain mild—some sneezing and sniffling and occasional coughing, along with low energy; but they are glad to be home—even in a state that values guns over brains, is tops for obesity and alcohol consumption, and has as a mascot the largest member of the weasel family.
Home sweet home!
Bring on the weather!
