Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and his retired military officer brother Orv, both their lives having been altered in major ways by wars—Korea, Vietnam, visited with Verlyn Mueller, curator at the “Museum of Badger Ammunition” on the grounds of the former Badger Ordinance Works where …
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Month:October 2024
Kickass and Vehicle Display
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has floated the idea previously of large numbers being displayed on vehicles indicating the age of the driver but is backing off and suggesting instead that vehicle lettering be required to indicate a driver’s voting record. With an election coming …
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Kickass and Coincidental Lunch
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, ever alert to making meaningful scientific contributions, suggests that the occasion of clan males just happening to gather at a Sauk City lunch venue speaks to a basic evolutionary survival mechanism that warrants further investigation. On a day when the …
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Kickass and Missing Summer
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis will be leading the search to find out just what the hell happened to the summer of 2024. Here we are well into the autumn of 2024 with no clear sense of there ever having been a 2024 …
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The New Normal
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We once had a dog, a cute little schnoodle named Lucy. We got her as a puppy and raised her as a member of our family. Our daughter grew up alongside her. As Lucy grew older, we noticed normal signs of aging: lower mobility, hearing and sight issues, …
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Kickass and ID Badge
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper’s getting-ready-for-winter preparations are particularly challenging in this time of high political drama that reveals how the trickle-down theory of economics is patterned after the dogs’ method of marking territory. As an early October morning temperature reading dances around 50, the …
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Kickass and Jimmy’s Birthday
Attribution:Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in marking the 100thbirthday of Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who defined what it means to be a respected and admired member of the human race no matter where you are—a peanut …
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