Airman 1st Class Jensen Stidham, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in congratulating all those young troopers who made it through the first week of school; and he warns against student loans, at least until second grade, despite what the kids might hear from the Republican sponsored credit industry, and those far-right ignoramuses who demand that teachers tell students that Anne Frank was the tooth fairy.
As usual, school opening moves the keeper to recall his “first days” at the one-room country school up in Barron County about a hundred years ago, and the mile-and-one-half walk to get there, which was, of course, uphill both coming and going.
