Matt Schumitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in his efforts to catalog the utterly stupid things done by Wisconsin citizens, now claims that electing Ron Johnson to two terms as US senator now outranks the sheer dumbness of creating five very expensive and ridiculous dog-racing facilities back in …
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Kickass and Hereafter Message
Photo by Luis Quintero from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s tech world has gone completely wacko and he is receiving messages from a medium that communicates with the departed, specifically the keeper’s old Black friend Bob Shepard who checked out with a bad heart many years ago. “Stokes, remember when your …
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Kickass and Farm Tools
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with Phyllis as she contends with the keeper’s futile efforts to slow up the passage of time by surrounding himself with the artifacts of his past. Most recently it was a hand tool for shearing sheep, something the keeper remembers watching neighbors use to …
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Kickass and Four Horses’ Asses
Albrecht Dürer , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is with the keeper as he—the keeper “rides” through unfamiliar Biblical “Revelations” territory with the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and a formulates a Wisconsin version to be known as the Four Horses Asses of Wisconsin’s Demise: Arrogance, Ignorance, Narcissism and …
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Kickass and Ancestry Truth
Popular Graphic Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper’s granddaughter Sarah digs into the family ancestry, she finds characters who obviously did it all—the good and the bad, with details yet to come. In keeping with the current resistance to accepting honest historical accounts, …
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Kickass Up in the Clouds
Photo by Naldo Mesquita from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, turns it over to the keeper as he and Phyllis fly over the country in returning from their Colorado visit with Rick and Becky on a magnificent day of endless cumulous clouds that–as the summer solstice is marked–make it appear that the earth has blossomed …
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Kickass and Sewing on a Button
Photo by Suzy Hazelwood from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, does not understand how it is that the keeper and his ilk cling to life-long habits of measuring a day in terms of accomplishment, even when they have advanced to an age when they don’t really have to do a damn thing except nap. On …
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Kickass and Bagging the Poop
Photo by Matthew LeJune on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has an angle view of a sidewalk frequently used by dog walkers, and in recently watching a walker do the plastic bag pickup, the keeper saw an opportunity to do good, specifically to reframe an obvious thought process from one of …
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Kickass and the Barbed Wire Fence
Photo by Johnny Mckane from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper—in a solo outing Sunday, was narrowly spared the indignity of expiring as a result of being impaled on a three-strand barbed wire fence as part of his—the keeper’s adjusting to age-related trout fishing activities. The attendant thrills of this age–adjusting to the …
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Kickass and Sports Story Trade
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, suggests that the keeper try to control his—the keeper’s, excitement over the rumored trade between Minnesota and Wisconsin in which foul-ball hitter and debase runner Ron Johnson is to be exchanged for the My-Pillow …
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Kickass and the Cicada Interview
Photo by Michael Kropiewnicki from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be using his extraordinary communication powers to help the keeper interview the Maryland cicada that recently landed on Joe Biden’s shirt collar. Kickass: “The QAnon idiots say you may be a sign of something. What might that be?” Cicada: “That I am the premature reincarnation …
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Kickass and 757 Travel Plans
Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that Phyllis’s weekend visit with her Ohio daughter Gina has put the keeper in a state of some discombobulation, but it has also given him an opportunity to suggest future travel plans for Phyllis that would include …
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