Attribution: Mostafameraji, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is under the questionable impression that as long as he has some connection with a “school” he must be learning something, hence his trek across the parking lot to the “Aveda” beauty “school” for a haircut. The school …
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Month:August 2026
Kickass and Grandma’s Sewing Maching
Attribution: Panjigally, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper’s family as it struggles with the problem of what to do with grandma’s old sewing machine. The dilemma is as common as weeds, and has generated multiple businesses to help with recycling “junk.” There are, of course, …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “Disclosure Day”
★★★ 1/2 Handling the Truth: Film Review of Disclosure Day Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Steven Spielberg has had a long and storied relationship with aliens in his canon of cinematic masterpieces. From the adorable E.T. to the wondrously communicative and benevolent aliens in 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind to the horrors of the malignant …
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Kickass Sues the POTUS
Attribution: G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, overheard the keeper tell Phyllis that he is suing the POTUS. The keeper’s basic case will be based on the verity that while he accepts that he is frequently dumb, he is not consistently as dumb as the daily …
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Trump and a Political Fantasy
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s inside sources have learned that there are White House plans to knock down the Washington Monument obelisk and us the material to fill in the reflecting pool. Since the obelisk is only 555 feet tall and the reflecting pool is 2029 …
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