Attribution: Joe Biden: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (source: Joe Biden); User:TDKR Chicago 101 (clipping) Donald Trump: Shealah Craighead (source: White House) Сombination: krassotkin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, Last week’s biggest political …
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Category:Aging
Kickass and the Old Bridge
Attribution: Randen Pederson from Superior, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, thinks that by now the keeper should be accustomed to seeing the destruction and replacement of the many things he remembers being built—shopping malls, huge business complexes and roads and bridges, like the Blatnik bridge connecting Superior and …
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Kickass and Sister’s Birthday
Picture by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in wishing the keeper’s younger—by only 15 months, sister Norma a very happy birthday as she greets this day and every day with typical independence, alone in her Cherry Valley house with family nearby ready to celebrate with a …
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Kickass Ships a Book
Attribution: © Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, admires the keeper’s inclination to confess incompetence bordering on stupidity, his thinking being that such reports are found comforting by those who can say to themselves, “Well, I’ve never done anything that dumb!” It was the keeper’s simple task …
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Kickass and Old Friend
Attribution: Wil Stewart wilstewart3, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having recently renewed contact with lifelong friend Roger Locke who lives in Michigan near a daughter, is astounded at the fact that the two of them, to the best of their knowledge, are the only survivors …
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Kickass at Lunch
Attribution: Prayitno / Thank you for (12 millions +) view from Los Angeles, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper had lunch with four others where 83-year-old Harry was considered “the kid” and except for “the kid” the keeper at 92 was the youngest at the …
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Kickass Behind the Times
Attribution: ArtNow314, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper is late today with his ranting and would offer up a bunch of explanations all of which have to do with……..oh never mind! It would just come off as his constant lamenting the burden of living in …
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Kickass Finds His Way
Attribution: Ian Sane from Oregon, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, wags his cast iron tail at not being part of the keeper’s latest fiasco which should have been as simple as three old men meeting for lunch at downtown Capital Lakes. In his perpetual fog of false …
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Kickass and Weight Programs
Attribution: Frank C. Müller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are deep into weight loss programs, Phyllis’s being overseen by a personal health scale that communicates with her and was recently upset when the keeper innocently stepped on it. Obviously not programed to …
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Kickass and Attacking Pound
Attribution: Wtshymanski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper suffered yet another attack by a stray pound that used ambush tactics in the night to join the other invader pounds in their waistline stronghold. Following a dining night out by the keeper and Phyllis, there was …
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Kickass and Norwegian Dancers
Attribution: Torvild, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hands it off to the keeper today as he and Phyllis watched the Stoughton High School dancers perform a morning show at Vista West. It was fantastic, and it made the keeper think of his dear old Norwegian mother, and to …
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Kickass and Downhill Cot
Attribution: Michel, Carl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, allows the keeper a memory exercise that takes him back to his arrival on the UW campus fresh out of a three-year Army stint that included a year of Korean combat duty where sleeping in trenches and bunkers was the …
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