“Arlington National Cemetery Rows” Joeyp3413, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in considering how Memorial Day is built around those who die when they are handed official guns and ordered to go to a shoot-out with total strangers. The keeper lucked out when it was his turn …
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Kickass and Wolf Traffic Control
National Archives and Records Administration , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting the recent research implication that the presence of wolves—an estimated 1,000 in Wisconsin, greatly reduces the incidence of deer-traffic collisions, which averages nearly 20,000 annually and results in eight deaths and 477 injuries …
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Kickass and Big and Little Lies
“Nekoosa Paper Company on Wisconsin River” National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in lamenting the very latest—and to the keeper the most offensive, example of rich men in positions of power refusing to acknowledge that their terms have expired: Fred Prehn, …
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Kickass and Homeless Cricket
“North Portland Homeless Tent Camp”Graywalls, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, while driving through Madison ‘s Reindahl park–named after a shirt-tail predecessor of the keeper’s, happened upon a couple of puzzling scenes: men playing cricket and, not far away, the remains of a …
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Kickass and Capitol Celebrations
Ander107, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that something incredibly worthwhile took place Saturday on Capital Square in Madison as the do-nothing Repub legislators were replaced by beautiful young women and their smiling escorts in celebration of delayed proms and other joyous occasions. Instead of obstruction narcissists dominating …
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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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Kickass and Natural Commission
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper in establishing a commission to investigate the seasonal insurrection of the spring of 2021, when the human species continued its destructive ways as the rest of the natural world went on about the business of propagation and existence with a glorious display of blossoms, exuberance …
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Kickass and McViewitis
TapTheForwardAssist, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s recent preoccupation with vision issues may have been misguided in that he apparently didn’t see what he saw. In comparing notes with others who did not see what they saw, the keeper refers to an apparent new affliction …
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Kickass and Preserving Vision
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that among the things keeping the keeper in the game is the outstanding work done by the VA eye clinic to preserve his vision in the face of hereditary and aging based challenges. Pro-active measures include periodic macular degeneration shots in one eye, and there has been cataract …
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Kickass and Rants to Howls
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports some progress with the keeper’s efforts to transform his rants into howls, particularly as another summer approaches when Wisconsin will again be the ONLY STATE allowing bear hunters to train their hounds by running them through the woods at the height of family rearing by countless wild …
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Kickass and Renewal
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis joined the mass exodus to the gloriously blossoming natural world Sunday with a patrol of the Driftless area where Phyllis photographed trilliums and other wildflowers, and the keeper finally caught a breakfast trout. Increasingly aware of age-related limitations, the keeper did not …
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Kickass Does a Recount
Foley, Mark T., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, using the technique of the know-nothing Arizona vote counters, is pawing through cultural records in search of evolutionary advances. So far, he has found: *Money in politics carries the day in white male millionaire briefcases. *If a …
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