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Kickass Takes on Football

Posted on January 3, 2023Updated on January 3, 2023by Bill StokesCategories:Culture, Kickass, Social Commentary, Sports

B, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that the saturation of football in American culture is little improvement over the collective coliseum days of Rome, and in some respects is justifiably compared to dog and cock fighting as organized spectator sports. Structured by billionaire overlord …
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Whistling In the Graveyard

Posted on October 28, 2022Updated on October 28, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Culture, Humor

(Originally posted on October 31, 2019) Photos by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter While driving around running errands this last Sunday, my wife and I found ourselves in the somewhat unusual position of having some time to kill, a strange situation for us. It was a beautiful October afternoon, sunny and seasonably mild. The leaves …
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Dialogues on Lying Like a Rug: Tartuffe Goes to Washington

Posted on October 21, 2022Updated on October 21, 2022by Mark MamerowCategories:Culture, Michael DiMilo, Politics, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter We should not be surprised by some level of hypocrisy from politicians. But the Herschel Walker abortion story is playing out at a higher level. Football hero & Trump devotee Walker is running in …
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Dialogues on The American Dream: How to Take Candy from a Baby

Posted on October 4, 2022Updated on October 4, 2022by Mark MamerowCategories:Culture, Social Commentary

Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul Carter, and Geoff Carter Several things jumped out at me re this $240M scam our diligent FBI uncovered: Department of Justice Report on Feeding Our Families Scandal Watch out: This will be the poster child for Tucker and Fox …
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Kickass Revisits Drink, Drank, Drunk

Posted on September 26, 2022Updated on September 26, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Alcohol, Culture, Humor, Kickass

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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The Queen is Dead

Posted on September 15, 2022Updated on September 15, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Culture, Michael DiMilo, Politics, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last Thursday, at the ripe old age of ninety-six, after a reign of seventy years, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. The news of her passing has (in a gross understatement) dominated the news. She had been the queen since her coronation in 1952, the same year that The Jackie …
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Winter is Coming

Posted on September 8, 2022Updated on September 8, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Aging, Culture, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I went to a funeral service of an old friend last week. He was a few years older than me but only a few. We hung out and partied quite a bit when we were younger. His death was the latest in an increasing succession of old acquaintances …
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Kickass and Walmart Funeral

Posted on May 19, 2022Updated on May 19, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Culture, Economy, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Walmart Corporate from Bentonville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s observation that Walmart is apparently having difficulty recruiting pallbearers for its own retail funeral, judging from the lack of staffing at a store where the keeper stood in a long line to buy some …
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The Lost Generations

Posted on May 19, 2022Updated on May 19, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Culture, Michael DiMilo, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Traditional wisdom used to have it that every generation should be better off than that of their parents. On the surface, that idea seems to make perfect sense. Historically, advances in technology, medicine, communication, and transportation have translated into healthier and more prosperous lifestyles for subsequent generations. This …
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Kickass and Birds Aren’t Real

Posted on May 2, 2022Updated on May 2, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Conspiracy theory, Culture, Humor, Kickass

Ismael Olea, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, does not often get an opportunity to report that the keeper is put into a state of euphoria by something on TV, but it happened with the “Birds aren’t real” piece on 60-Minutes Sunday: THERE IS HOPE! Young people have taken the …
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Solitude

Posted on April 28, 2022Updated on April 28, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Culture, Michael DiMilo, Social Commentary

Art by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I was thinking about my grandma the other day, about how she used to leave her TV on all the time, whether she was in the room or not. When I was in college, I had a standing invitation to come to her house for dinner. I’d arrive …
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Kickass and Full Service

Posted on March 8, 2022Updated on March 8, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Culture, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper renews his membership in the club of old guys who once worked in a “filling” station, by joining the chorus of “five—or was it six, gallons of gas for a dollar;” and asking for the gas order only after having washed …
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