Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper shares a common experience with Dem Veep candidate Tim Walz in that both were arrested for DUI earlier in life, were fined and temporarily lost driving privileges. Tim, as a 30-year-old teacher at the time, responded by doing a life-time …
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Kickass and Wisconsin State Cocktail
Attribution:Steven Miller, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper may have to revise his assessment of the current Repub minority-representation Wisconsin legislature as a narcissistic do-nothing-except-for-the-rich bunch of self-serving revisionist gerrymandered obstructionists. With a record of contrary disregard for populace needs and desires and basic decency, …
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Kickass Drinks with Fruit flies
Attribution: Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is on his own in considering fruit flies as drinking companions and hence as a source of protein. In a recent non-clinical trial, the keeper inexplicably—and temporarily, abandoned his partially-filled brandy glass, and upon …
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Kickass and Beer Drinking
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s long lifetime love/hate relationship with beer will not likely undergo any change with the news that US health officials are eyeballing Canada’s recommendation to drink only two beers per week. Currently the US health recommendation is for no more than two …
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Kickass and Women in Wineries
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that in the keeper’s continuing efforts to analyze the downfall of humanity, he observes that the historically accepted social trend of men hanging around taverns is now being replaced by women hanging around wineries. This cannot help but be a positive cultural turnaround …
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Kickass Revisits Drink, Drank, Drunk
Photo by Vasil Korzh on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s misfortune in finding yet another box of clippings and letters from his dim, dark journalistic past that covered the time he wrote “Drink, Drank, Drunk” for the Milwaukee Journal, a series of six articles exploring the detrimental choke hold …
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