Jeroen Kransen, Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in a salute to: “The Noisy Guys of Winter” Into the snowy white silence Come the noisy guys of winter. Blinking yellow trucks scraping loud, Parking lot tractors pinging in reverse. Recycle rigs banging bins and doors. …
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Month:January 2023
Kickass and Phyllis’ New Desk
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in congratulating Phyllis on the occasion of her “new” desk, which compliments her promotion to Supreme Commander of all matters having to do with the keeper’s life, including the current book project of “Treeson: an APOLOGIA to trees,” that looks at the …
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Kickass and the Nothing Post
darwin Bell from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has nothing to say this morning, and so having said it, he ends this post and goes out for breakfast with Phyllis. Later they plan to drop over to the Cider Farm Eatery …
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Kickass and Use of Gravity
English: Staff Sgt. Clinton Firstbrook, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aids the keeper in spreading the word that, contrary to the cliché that gravity is not a friend to the keeper’s age group, the opposite is true: it is very friendly if used properly. Now with the return …
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A Road Less Traveled
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter On Friday nights, my wife and I will typically open a bottle of wine and settle in to watch some streaming TV, usually a movie or a limited series, but this last weekend, after supper, I went into the family room and started sorting out some of our …
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Dialogues on the Price of Free Speech: Asocial Media
Geralt, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Mark O., Dave S., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter The 1996 Communication Decency Act has at its heart Section 230: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by …
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Kickass Resigns as a Human
Dsns.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to help the keeper with the dilemma of continuing to accept identity as a member of the species that has the intelligence to build the most powerful weapons of destruction imaginable and then using those weapons to kill innocents in …
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Kickass and Secret Info
United States Department of Justice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in clearing up the matter of possibly having classified documents in his files. At some point during his three-year Army stint in Infantry intelligence units, 70 or so years ago, the Army deemed it necessary to clear …
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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!!
The Pen in Hand Blog Photo by J. Amill Santiago on Unsplash
Kickass and January Rain
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper sipping from his first cup of coffee on a rainy January morning, sniffing with the dregs of a stubborn cold, but generally feeling smug about his good fortune in having accidentally migrated far enough south from his northern Wisconsin birthplace to …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of Babylon
Photo by Justin Campbell on Unsplash Over the Top: Film Review of Babylon To call Damien Chazelle’s Babylon an exercise in excess would be a hyperbolic understatement. From the first surreal sequence of an elephant being transported through the California desert to one of the wildest and most decadent bacchanals ever presented on film, Babylon begins with one of the most incredibly …
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Kickass and MLK Bob Shephard
John Brighenti from Rockville, MD, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper on this MLK weekend in the traditional salute to the memory of the keeper’s old Army friend Bob Shephard, from the wintery command integration on a Korean hill side to the life-long sharing …
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