Attribution: Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, senses the emotional intensity building up with the keeper and Phyllis as the November 3 election looms. The keeper has no clear recollection of serious political discussion during their brief courtship. But as it turned …
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Kickass and Buying a House
Attribution: Gogerr, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the most irritating of the keeper’s recent “Back in my day” stories may be the one of his having once bought a new four-bedroom house on Madison’s west side for $25,000. The reaction of listeners to the …
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Kickass and Baby-Banking
Attribution: Ernest F, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, looks over the keeper’s shoulder as he appears to be enjoying the latest Fux News. “The male-dominated Republican Senate Committee in charge of women’s bodies is proposing a ‘womb rental’ fee to be levied on infants at the time of …
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Kickass and Shouting Children
Attribution: Photo by Vitolda Klein on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, loafed with the keeper and Phyllis in front of the wide-open door as the waning daylight lost its sun-stored warmth and its luminating powers. Somewhere out there, invisible in the evolving late October night, a lighted playground full of children produced a joyous non-stop …
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Kickass Does NOT Go to the Game
Attribution: Ryan Dickey from Evanston, IL / Chicago, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, watched as the keeper decided not to go to one of the upcoming World Series games in Milwaukee after noting single game tickets were priced at more than $5,000, and one for standing-room-only …
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Kickass and the Best City
Attribution: HarvestLife, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, acts with some ambiguity with the keeper and Phyllis as they absorb the National Geographic announcement that Madison has been named one of the “best cities in the world” to spend 2027. On the one hand there will be an increase …
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Kickass is Under the Bus
Attribution: Photo by Austin Pacheco on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, presents the following one-act play on behalf of the Keeper and Phylis. “Where are we?” “Under the bus!” “How the hell did we all get under the bus?” “We were thrown there by the driver, the one hired by the escaped billionaire inmates. He …
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Kickass Discovers AI Damage
Attribution: W.carter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listens as the keeper explains his important discovery of just how AI will do the great harm predicted by some observers. Having arisen from bed too early, the keeper was positioned in front of his computer when he apparently dozed off …
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Kickass and Pheasant Hunting
Attribution: Photo by Doncoombez on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes his and the keeper’s retirement from hunting as the past weekend marked the opening of the Wisconsin pheasant hunting season, an activity as propped up as a shotgun wedding. The hunt involves a chicken-sized exotic bird with spectacular colorful plumage, raised by the state by …
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Kickass and NO KINGS DAY
Attribution: Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, arises on this NO KINGS day ready to join the keeper and Phyllis and the rest of the world in messaging the narcissistic riffraff in the White House that it is time for them to cancel their illusions of becoming royalty as in …
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Kickass and Visitors from Canada
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes, along with the keeper and Phyllis, that visitors from Canada bring reassurance that all is not lost, despite the inane babbling of the pitiful POTUS. Phyllis’s sister Joan and her husband Bill are on their way back to their Saskatchewan home after a …
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Kickass Apologizes to Trees
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper once wrote a book entitled “TREESON: an APPOLOGIA Trees,” which carried the keeper’s message of contrition for the trees that had been cut down and used to make the paper to print his newspaper column drivel. The book allowed him to review …
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