Attribution: Photo by Filip Andrejevic on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, goes against the wisdom that dwelling on regrets is pretty much a waste of time, and allows the keeper to dwell on the regret that when he visited Paris many years ago he did not go see the Eiffel Tower. There is no clear …
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Month:October 2026
Kickass and the Frat Boys
Attribution: Rotograph Company, New York City (publisher), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hands it off to the keeper for his rant on college fraternities. The “frats” have recently been in the news for making Cornell University look like a juvenile fun-house parking lot complete with playpens for the …
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Kickass Talks to the Cows
Attribution: StanCoFair, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting, along with the keeper, that if they have not already left town, those hundreds of world class cows in Madison this week for the World Dairy Expo are on their way home, or maybe on to the next show ring. …
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Kickass Watches the Trees Undress
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper deeply immersed in watching the spectacular color changes occurring in the trees that dominate his and Phyllis’s view out across Madison’s Gammon Road. As the trees stood in their staid and steady deep green summer work garb two days ago, it …
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Into the Light
Attribution: Photo by infinyd photo on Unsplash By Geoff Carter “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” —Helen Keller She would know. Trapped in a world of silence and darkness as a child after being afflicted with an acute fever, fully aware that a world existed outside her perception must have …
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