Kickass and a Happy Birthday

Selena N. B. H. from Fayetteville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that today the keeper and Phyllis will host a birthday celebration for Phyllis’s grandson Geordan with a German menu favored by his father Kevin and mother Colleen. It will be a happy occasion, and the keeper will …
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Dialogues on the State of the Unions: Letters from a Closed Shop

Artwork by Micheal DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark Mamerow, Dave S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Time for balanced reporting. And I’m not sure anyone has actually said the fall of the unions was no fault of the unions….but if they are even thinking it—ya’ll better duck for cover. Though I’ve done no …
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Kickass and Winter Car Starting

Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway) from Oslo, Norway, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper on another of his—the keeper’s, “good ol’ days” rants, this one comparing present day automatic remote car starters with such things as hand engine cranks and frozen boiled-out radiators and frozen oil …
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Kickass Remembers Pearl Harbor

National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper recalls the widely used “Remember Pearl Harbor,” catch phrase from WWII days, and suggests its revival along with some editing: “Forget Pearl Harbor and Remember Jan. 6.” If ever there was a day that …
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Kickass Does Book Promo

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will be talking about his novel “Margaret’s War,” today before the residents of Vista West where he and Phyllis live. It promises to be a tough crowd, including such luminaries as Ted Tibbits who guided the UW project of growing potatoes …
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Kickass and the Lost Prop

W.carter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in celebrating the good-news story about the 1200-year-old dugout canoe being found and retrieved from Lake Mendota, to become the oldest retrieved watercraft in local history. And, of course, news of the event triggered a Lake Mendota memory of …
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Living in the Past

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. –Thomas Jefferson We’ve been taught to respect and believe these hallowed words since we were children. Of course, after a close examination of U.S.  history, no one—except perhaps a child—is naĂŻve enough to believe them. Shortly …
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Kickass and Repub Revisionists

United States Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting yet another instance of modifying the record as the 100th anniversary—May 31, of the Tulsa massacre approaches. Despite the recent eye-witness account of 107-year-old Viola Fletcher before congress, in which she recounted details of …
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