Kickass and Being 48

Attribution: Stadtarchiv Kiel , CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper asked his and Phyllis’s fellow Vista West residents at a social gathering to comment on something from their lives from when they were 48 years old.    Amazingly, it turns out that many people denied ever …
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Working Out the Kinks

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter My new habit of going to the gym is not because I made a New Year’s resolution. No, I’m merely taking advantage of my Medicare Advantage program, which allows me to join as many gyms or fitness programs as I wish. So, this new determination to work out …
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Kickass and POTUS Age

Attribution: Adam Schultz , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, from his vantage point of ten years in age on Joe Biden, passes along the word that it is not to worry about Joe being too old for the POTUS job.            Au contraire! When the keeper …
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Kickass and Old Men with iPhones

Attribution: Japanexperterna.se, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is supporting the keeper in his move to make it illegal for old men—and maybe some elderly women, to possess iPhones, after overwhelming anecdotal evidence shows that the phones do more harm than good in the shaky hands of those old …
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Dialogues on Grumpy Old Men: Get Off My White House Lawn!

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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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 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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