Animation by Michael DiMilo
Category:Health
Kickass and Heart Harm
http://www.scientificanimations.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s response to having a heart attack back in 1983 as he drove home from Chicago was to stop at a truck stop and have a beer and a sandwich. With one totally clogged heart artery and others almost …
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Kickass and Santa Christmas Story
Durova, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in ignoring incredibly serious subject matter, and offering a little Christmas story: On a frosty morning in early December, Santa burst into the reindeer barn and after a hearty “Ho, Ho, Ho,” he announced, “Okay, all you antlered ruminants …
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Kickass and Hamburger Forehead
Tomáš Kebert & umimeto.org, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper as his forehead takes on the appearance of raw hamburger in response to a proactive skin cancer treatment prescribed by the VA dermatologists. Timed to coordinate with Phyllis’s UW cancer treatment regimen that calls for quarantining, the keeper will …
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Kickass and Phyllis Treatment
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis have begun an intense five session radiation treatment procedure at the UW Carbone Cancer Center for Phyllis that will see them traveling to various Madison locations and then in a virtual quarantine through Dec. 7. While this circumstance …
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Kickass Gets a Vasectomy
/ C.Suthorn / cc-by-sa-4.0 / commons.wikimedia.org By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has probably not made any more life altering decisions than most men but cites an incident way back when he was a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal and, in the mode of writing about everything, did a column for the Journal’s “Insight” magazine …
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Kickass Deep in the Heart of Texas
Lardyfatboy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper remembers about a hundred years ago when he was the Lone Ranger riding an ornery little pony named Silver to bring in the small herd of family milk cows while singing cowboy songs, one of which was “Deep …
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The Long Goodbye
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter This past weekend, I attended a memorial service to commemorate the passing of a very old and very dear friend of mine. Because he died eighteen months ago, during the height of the pandemic—while we under quarantine—his family was unable to hold services at that time. Because this …
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Kickass and Phyllis Back on the Trail
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s report that, as everyone knew she would, Phyllis sailed through her Monday hip replacement surgery as if it were nothing more than a pedicure. As a woman who has hiked in every National Park in the US and has the …
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Kickass and Phyllis’ Hip
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, turns it over to the keeper as he reports that tomorrow before the sun is up, Phyllis will be undergoing hip replacement surgery at a UW Health facility, thanks to the availability of a hospital bed in this day of abject Covid stupidity. That …
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Kickass and 100,000 COVID Deaths
Amebrahtu1997, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, says that while the keeper is not big on math, he does comprehend the official US estimate that another 100,000 Covid deaths is predicted unless more people wear masks, in which case only 50,000 people will die, most from the ranks of …
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Kickass and the Kool-Aid
Photo by Max Fischer from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation that the Repubs’ use of the “Jim Jones” approach of using death to deal with life’s issues appears to be working for them. From ingesting horse worm medication to gathering in Sturgis to sneeze on each other to conducting crowded meetings …
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