Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper is happy with the birthday celebration and parade over the weekend. He wished a very happy 90th birthday to his brother Orville at the lunch party that included their 91-year-old sister Norma and Orv’s daughter Lea. And then later there was a …
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Category:Activism
Kickass and Demonstrators
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper tries to lend a hand here and there as Phyllis and others mount a “Protection Rally” to proclaim the injustice of depriving seniors of necessary benefits and services as prescribed by a haunted and a contaminated White House. In an …
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Kickass and Demonstrators
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper lending a hand as Phyllis and her Vista West cohorts join the May Day crowd of “IMPEACH-CONVICT-REMOVE” demonstrators across the country. Fresh from a previous practice session earlier at the Capitol there was a serious sign making endeavor—Phyllis’s sign reads “I’M …
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Glimmers of Hope
Attribution: Stiller Beobachter from Ansbach, Germany, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter “I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” –Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Admiral Yamamoto said this after the Japanese sneak attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor—the strike he himself had planned. The …
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Kickass and Old Protests
Attribution: uwdigitalcollections, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries not to get in the way as Phyllis and friends work out an introduction to the city bus system so they can get to the Capitol for such things as political demonstrations. The keeper, in the meantime retreats to a …
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Kickass and POTUS Eviction
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes, along with the keeper, Phyllis and thousands of Sunday’s “Hands Off” demonstrators, that having made their feelings known they will now demand that the most recent POTUS election be declared null and void on the grounds of illegal vote buying, easily proven by …
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The Fourth Wall
Attribution: Photo by Ilmi Amali Q.A on Unsplash By Geoff Carter I’m sick of politics. The last six weeks—four months—have been exhausting. We’ve gone from shock to disappointment to denial to acceptance (pretty much the stages of grief) to greater shock, disbelief, fear, and anger. Of course, to be fair, this is only one side of the argument. …
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The Oppression Olympics
NASA Ames, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Mark Mamerow NASA’s new telescope is an amazing scientific and engineering accomplishment, but a groundswell of opposition has arisen to the naming of the telescope after James Webb. He directed NASA in the 1960s and led the agency in its successful quest to mount manned missions to the …
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Kickass and Wine-Tasting Tea Parties
Lou Stejskal, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in observing that while the taverns, and their predominantly male occupants, have historically been the main places of both outrageousness and mayhem in the area of social imbibing, there has been a shift from taverns to wineries, with …
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Helping Hands
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Since the recent—but not unexpected—Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe -v- Wade, American citizens have been scrambling to come to terms with the consequences and implications of this new and deeply disturbing ruling. The nation is reeling in shock. After all, it’s the first time that the highest …
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Kickass and Mom’s Job Not Over
Legoktm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has abandoned all that is sacred and offers the following: MOTHER Mother, Mother, we love you so. You taught us how to stop and go. We learned from you the good and bad, And how they both showed …
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Kickass and Manchin and Prehn
Joe ManchinUnited States Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has reached the limits of his tolerance for the likes of Joe Manchin lecturing desperate kayakers from the back of his $700,000 yacht; and Fred Prehn, the Wausau tooth-jerker, who refuses to leave the DNR …
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