Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in observing that some very basic things don’t change all that much, for example clan gatherings in cave-like settings to chew the meat off the bone of an animal, consume plant products, drink various concoctions, tenderly tend the little ones and …
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Month:April 2023
Kickass and Arbor Day
D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in celebrating Arbor Day, the inclusion of trees in their respective lives being different in some ways but similar in others, namely a lack of respect. The keeper has attempted to make amends with publication of his …
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Kickass and the Toilet Seat
Attribution: Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper tries not to get too excited about the Senate Republicans voting down the Equal Rights Amendment since it could conceivably be used by women to demand regulations that men sit down to pee, ending once and for …
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Kickass and Dumb Senator
Attribution:Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper’s inclination to look at the bright side of things, was at first gratified by Sen. Ron Johnson’s contention that global warming is a good thing because fewer people in Wisconsin …
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter On a recent trip to New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, and as it turns out, the Land of Enlightenment (as a state which recently offered tuition-free college and legalized recreational marijuana), I was invited by my brother to accompany him on a visit to a local marijuana …
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Kickass and Biden Being Too Young
Adam Schultz , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and those with concerns about Joe Biden’s age as he announces a run for reelection, not because he is too old, but because at 80 he may be too young. The keeper’s reasoning is based on his own …
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Kickass and Tucker as Dog
U.S. Air Force Photo by Josh Plueger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Military_dog_barking.JPG By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’ s observation that If Tucker Carlson were a dog and had been returned to the shelter for snarling and biting and barking at pizza deliverers, his adoption promo might include “Big, …
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Kickass and Tony Earl Memorial
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper’s assessment that the Memorial program for Tony Earl Sunday at Monona Terrace was a most fitting wrap for the Earth Day weekend, bringing together as it did multiple people who worked with Tony to accomplish meaningful things in the name …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: The Milwaukee Film Festival
Something for Everybody: Festival Season Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/23LET4Hxj_U By Geoff Carter Milwaukee Film, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons For the Milwaukee film fan, or any cinephile who enjoys straying off the beaten path occasionally, the Milwaukee Film Festival is one of the best times of the year. I like to think of this event …
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Kickass and Kids and Cats
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, advises the keeper to use caution in all matters having to do with cats, considering the past hostility of some readers when the keeper wrote about them. But he–the keeper, cannot ignore the news out of New Zealand where a recreational competition among kids to …
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Kickass and the Bobcat
gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, having indulged the keeper as he wallowed through his past with publication of his book “Treeson: an APOLOGIA to Trees,” understands his tenuous emotional state upon hearing the news of the bobcat stuck in a car grill up …
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Kickass and News Perspective
NASA TV, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, interrupts his napping to assist the keeper in putting certain news items into relatable perspectives. The destructive blow-up of Elon Musk’s 33-engine, 394-foot-tall rocket ship, celebrated by Musk and his followers as a success, can be compared to someone in the …
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