Senate Democrats, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, having agreed to let the keeper into the “old dog” club, hereby extends the invitation to Dianne Feinstein, and reminds her that her days of chasing squirrels and dog-park dominance are over and she needs to take up serious napping. Physical …
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Month:April 2023
True Colors
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” –Plato “Despotic power is always accompanied by the corruption of morality.” –Lord Acton American politics has been devolving over the last decade or so. Discourse has become so gridlocked, it’s become nearly impossible for our two major …
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Dialogues on Red State Hubris: Southern Inhospitality
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter This just in from the R dominated volunteer state: “Southern man, better keep your headDon’t forget what your good book saidSouthern change gonna come at lastNow your crosses are burning fastSouthern man I saw …
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Kickass and Columnist Day
Andreas Bohnenstengel, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in thanking Karen Mayers for pointing out that April 18 was “National Columnist Day,” which gives the keeper an opportunity to lament the fact that he cannot stop writing columns even at an age when he might …
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Kickass and Phyllis’s Cataract
Attribution: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper dropped Phyllis off at the UW Health facility this morning for the second of her cataract procedures; and he is now mulling over the possibility that Phyllis’s vision may improve to the point where she …
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Kickass Advice on Winter Survival
NOAA Photo Library, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis on this miserable, blizzardy morning in passing along seasonal advice for adjusting to and surviving winter now that Wisconsin’s three-day summer is over: ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-and repeat if necessary! Hold the applause! The keeper and Phyllis enjoy …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of Oscar-Nominated Short Animated Films
Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Broadest of Spectrums: Reviews of Oscar-Nominated Short Animated Films By Geoff Carter My wife and I have made it an annual tradition to trek to the local movie theater and see the Oscar-nominated Best Short Subject Films, both the animated …
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Kickass on Campus
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, cheered the keeper and Phyllis on as they used the flawless sunny Saturday to soak up some spring and some youth in the vicinity of the UW. A walk out onto picnic point made the points that leashed dogs think the day is all …
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Dialogues on a Return to Sanity: Blue is the Warmest Color
Tony Patt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter ….Hail to the Victors…bl, bl, blah… First off: Apologies in advance for the volume lately. Below story is the sudden Democratic dominance in Michigan, a state I thought had swung hard right. …
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Kickass and Chicken Trouble
Adriel anv00, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to offer meaningful help to the keeper as he struggles to sort through a long lifetime of memories, a case in point being just whose chickens was it that, as a toddler, he frightened into a destructive panic by …
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Kickass and Hummingbird Soup
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has some doubts about the keeper’s project of teaching hummingbirds to eat sunflower seeds so he can stay within the “only hummingbird feeders rule” on the balconies at Vista West where he and Phyllis reside. So far the finches and sparrows, while demonstrating a …
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Kickass and the Anniversary
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper today in the anniversary celebration of Phyllis and the keeper as, in this season of love and nesting and mating, they mark their four treasured married years while the birds tweet sweet nothings and the creatures all murmur to each other …
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