Photo by Thomas Def on Unsplash By Mark Mamerow It’s just common sense, isn’t it? James and Jennifer Crumbley behaved irresponsibly, and now they’re being held accountable for it in court. The Crumbleys are the parents of the 15-year-old who shot up a suburban Michigan high school in America’s latest numbingly familiar school massacre. But in the case of Michigan …
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Kickass and Parenting
Afshin10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper acknowledges that while the rules for parenting are so simple that creatures on the lowest rungs follow them successfully by rearing generations of species replacements; complications can set in with parenting when cars and guns saturate the procreating …
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Kickass and School Gun Deaths
Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that a daily feature of the keeper’s life is watching the flow of students to and from the high school just across the street; and he notes that part of that view is the two …
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Kickass Resigns as Predator
WayneRay, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, does the keeper a favor by passing along the following proclamation which addresses the keeper’s desire to revise his predator status: “I, being of suspect mind and dilapidated body, “And having passed on predatory killing tools to younger clan members, “And marveling …
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Kickass and Predatory Handoff
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s “digs” was the scene of a big gun/fishing-tackle deal on a recent morning as he–the keeper handed off to his heirs the tools of his life-long predation on the lesser creatures. From the BB gun that killed the first sparrow, …
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Uncomfortably Numb
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Something woke me up in the middle of the night last week. I lay in bed, dumb with sleep, trying to figure out what it was. And then my phone pinged me from the nightstand. Again. And then again. And then again. It was trying to tell me …
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Kickass Remodels Memorial Day
“Arlington National Cemetery Rows” Joeyp3413, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in considering how Memorial Day is built around those who die when they are handed official guns and ordered to go to a shoot-out with total strangers. The keeper lucked out when it was his turn …
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