Kickass and the Delaware

Attribution: Emanuel Leutze, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper stuck in a patriotic mode as he climbs down from the North Church tower and pauses at the George Washington Crossing Park on the Delaware River as part of his bicentennial series for the Milwaukee Journal. As he …
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Kickass and Old North Church

Attribution: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper and Phyllis joining in the 250thanniversary celebration of Paul Revere’s famous ride, and the keeper remembering when he traveled the country in doing a bicentennial series for the Milwaukee Journal and talked a young sexton into …
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Wisconsin Strong

Photo by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter I’m a Wisconsinite, born and raised. I’m usually pretty proud of that. Not always, but usually. We’ve had our missteps and our black sheep, but generally Wisconsin does the right thing.  I’m especially proud of the progressive traditions and stubborn idealism evident in our state.  Just last week, in …
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Kickass and Civilization History

Attribution: Thomas Shahan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in wondering if it will be something like the great pyramids, a buried terracotta army, giant Easter Island type stone figures or something else that future anthropologists find to prove that the present “civilization” did indeed exist …
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Kickass and Eating Dogs

Attribution: Charles Marion Russell , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper hopes to avoid professional therapy as he adjusts to the new—to him, historical information that the Lewis and Clark expedition bought and ate 193 dogs as a source of protein, and in a diary, Meriwether …
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Kickass and “Margaret’s War”

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in claiming to have book-scooped Rachel Maddow with her “Prequel” that details the precarious pro-Nazi conditioning that occurred in the US prior to WWII  The keeper’s “Margaret’s War,” published two years ago does the same and throws in a love story …
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Kickass and The Black Hawk War

Attribution: Billwhittaker at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has finally finished his bedtime book: “Blackhawk–The Battle for the Heart of America” by Kerry Trask, history prof emeritus at UW Manitowoc. The book is an incredible work and leaves him–the keeper uniquely conditioned …
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