Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper commenting to Phyllis that he probably would have heard the gunshots if the balcony door had been open. As it was, he watched as the fire department vehicles parked over on Tree Lane to wait for the police squads to deal with …
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Month:September 2026
Kickass and Gloria Steinem
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in honoring another great woman–Gloria Steinem who died earlier this week at 92 after a lifetime of helping lead her collective gender out of the male dominate historical weeds. Among the many things Gloria said was that there would …
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Kickass Goes Beyond Howling
Attribution: Henry Edward Knobel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, still working to teach the keeper how to howl effectively, tries to ignore the brutal truth that the required reaction to the POTUS narcissistic cruelty has progressed beyond howling to demand snarling, mad-dog attacks complete with abject resistance and …
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Scorched Earth
Attribution: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using GEOS data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC. Story by Adam Voiland., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter As malignant, cruel, narcissistic, greedy, criminal, vindictive, juvenile, misogynistic, incompetent, racist, destructive, deceitful, power-hungry, stupid, and un-American he is, Donald Trump is …
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Kickass and the Log-Walk to School
Attribution: Joshua Mayer from Madison, WI, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper coming late to the competition for the toughest walk to school–uphill and into the wind both ways, amends his entry to include the log walk into time. This did not involve just …
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Kickass and the Cherry Trees
Attribution: Андрей Романенко, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in utilizing trees for territorial marking purposes, recognizes their importance in meaningful communication. It is therefore easy for him to understand just how upset the keeper and Phyllis are over the news of a hundred or so 60-year-old cherry trees …
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