Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis as perplexed as everyone else at Madison’s recent inclusion in the school-shooting category but they refrain from joining in the inane response of “thoughts and prayers” and try to embrace the following “bottom line” as proposed after a recent …
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Category:Guns
Kickass and Divisiveness
Attribution: DrunkDriver, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper and Phyllis do their best to heed advice to associate with those who might hold contrary political views, all in the interest of reducing divisiveness, they experience times when such activity becomes more of a challenge …
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Kickass Takes Day Off
Attribution: VOA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper in pawing through possible subject matter on this day of Sept. 5, 2024 noted the following: Two teachers and two students dead in Georgia school shooting. Four shot to death while sleeping on the Chicago El. Fresh …
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Kickass and Reaction Statement
Attribution: Frederick Burr Opper, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in acknowledging the widespread use of the following totally meaningless statement in reacting to the Meridian, PA. shooting: “There is no place in our political system for violence.” Every politician says it, and not only is …
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Kickass and the NRA
Attribution: PCVITA97, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, comments that the keeper is not bashful about seeking help for the woes of life that befall him; and he needs advice now on how to deal with a communication that is boldly labeled in red “FINAL NOTICE,” along with the …
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Kickass and Gun Stupidity
Attribution: Photo by Jay Rembert on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in appreciating the fact that they were among those who made it through Valentine’s Day without being shot. Some 100 or more people did not, that being the average number of daily gunshot deaths in the US: 54% suicide, …
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Kickass and Gun Users
Attribution: National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting yet another Sunday when the guns are out in Wisconsin in such numbers as would equip an army. Many thousands of guns of all descriptions are in the hands of amateur users …
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Little Murders
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We have become an inhuman and cruel people almost without realizing it. We witness atrocities and killings daily but simply shrug and turn away. We value profit over the sanctity of human life. And worse, we have become indifferent, apathetic—even actively antithetical—to the welfare of our children. On …
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The Hired Gun
Photo by Maxim Hopman on Unsplash By Geoff Carter According to the “Internet Movie Firearms Database”, which lists every type of firearm ever used in a Hollywood movie, over eleven types of pistols, seven types of revolvers, seven types of rifles, eight types of submachine guns, seven types of shotguns, two types of machine guns, and six other …
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Kickass and Shooting Flowers
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the following note from the keeper and Phyllis’s visit to the spectacular flower displays now in explosive blooming at the UW West Madison Agricultural Research Station next to the cemetery just off Mineral Point Road. Oh what to do about flowers? See …
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Kickass Rejects Horseshit
Redneck Revolt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s impatience with an allegedly enlightened populace’s unwavering allegiance to some of the rules that were written back when a major traffic problem was horse shit in the streets. That there are laudable basic precepts to live by in …
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Dialogues on Life During Wartime: Proud to be a “‘Merican”
Fibonacci Blue, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Buenas Noches Bots, Was just talking to a couple locals about events in the US. From here in Costa Rica, much of the news coming out of ‘Merica seems almost surreal …
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