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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Category:Guns
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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Kickass and Gun Insanity
adrigu, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that by applying the same inane reasoning that the 2nd Amendment gun-nuts use to justify carrying a 30-clip, people-killer down Main street, all modern vehicles need to be equipped with horse diapers to keep the streets clear of horse …
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Kickass and Kids and Cats
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, advises the keeper to use caution in all matters having to do with cats, considering the past hostility of some readers when the keeper wrote about them. But he–the keeper, cannot ignore the news out of New Zealand where a recreational competition among kids to …
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True Colors
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” –Plato “Despotic power is always accompanied by the corruption of morality.” –Lord Acton American politics has been devolving over the last decade or so. Discourse has become so gridlocked, it’s become nearly impossible for our two major …
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Kickass and Gun Insanity
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper in reacting to the police report of a “serious injury” shooting in the peaceful, school-saturated westside neighborhood where he and Phyllis live in a retirement facility called Vista West. The shooting victim later died, and two …
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