By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, presents the following photos of “fours” without comment… See more at… The Bill Stokes Author Page
Category:Humor
Kickass and Supreme Court Unmasked
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that if Wisconsin were the Suez Canal it would be permanently obstructed by the state Supreme Court which recently went aground in striking down Gov. Evers mask mandate. Wisconsin residents may be on the way to surviving Covid 19, but a greater test will …
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The Money Badger
By Geoffrey Carter Wisconsin has a long and storied tradition of perseverance and courage that is reflected in our state animal, the badger. For decades, he’s been the symbol of Wisconsin toughness, integrity, and grit. In a state that has boasted leaders of courage and integrity like Bob LaFollette, Bill Proxmire, Gaylord Nelson, and Vel …
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Divine Intervention
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter During the Spike Lee movie Jungle Fever, the character Gator is so badly addicted to crack that he breaks into and robs his parents’ apartment. For his father, it is the last straw in a prolonged and agonizing struggle to wrest his son’s soul from the clutches of crack …
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MAGA Land
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoffrey Carter American culture has entered what might be called a fractured state, divided along splintered planes of competing realities. A majority of us are still living in the real world, but a substantial portion of our population is living in a carefully manipulated alternative existence—a sort of ideological twilight …
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Kickass and Margaret’s War
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that Mondays can be problematic, particularly this one that has everyone waiting—for the vaccine, for crucial stimulus help and for the narcissistic king to get the hell out of the White House. With this in mind, Kickass stands aside today as the keeper announces that those who …
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Kickass Climbs a Mountain
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that on that beautiful Saturday when the world celebrated freedom from the clutches of sadistic narcissism, the keeper and Phyllis escaped the confines of their coronavirus exposed-facility and more or less climbed a mountain. The “mountain” was an old one—at least 500 million …
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Kickass and the Third Insect
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper hesitates to repost a photo, but after several sharp-eyed viewers—Jan and Gene among them, pointed out the presence of a third insect in the keeper’s butterfly-wasp photo, and Gina claimed to have photographed an invisible wasp, it was obvious that …
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Kickass and Butterfly Wasp Photo
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, often called upon to console the keeper over his shortcomings, steps up now to moderate his—the keeper’s excesses in claiming a camera coup in the area of nature photography. Having long been intimidated by photo friends who consistently produce sensational shots of scenes and sunsets and wild critters …
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Cool Beans
Kudos for Michael DiMilo Congratulations to Michael DiMilo for his award-winning short animated film Cool Beans. We are incredibly lucky to have Michael provide many of the outstanding illustrations for this blog and now you can see his outstanding animated work, too. If you haven’t yet seen it, check out coming attractions for this delightful …
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Whistling In the Graveyard
Photos by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter While driving around running errands this last Sunday, my wife and I found ourselves in the somewhat unusual position of having some time to kill, a strange situation for us. It was a beautiful October afternoon, sunny and seasonably mild. The leaves were nearly at their peak and …
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Civil Obedience
CIVIL OBEDIENCE I heard a great story the other day at my barbershop, that time-honored venue for a good conversation and the occasional bawdy tale. Things have changed, of course, and the barbershop is now not always a stronghold for the masculine sensibility. And that can be a good thing. The story I heard concerns …
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