Kickass and Badger Ordinance

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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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 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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