Kickass and Family Gathering

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are coming off a weekend of hosting members of the keeper’s clan—a son, grandchildren, a granddaughter-in-law, great-grand-children and a family dog named Boo that once lived with the keeper and Phyllis. Needless to say, it was immeasurably precious …
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Kickass and War Conditioning

Author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes “War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It’s hardly a civilized pursuit. It’s amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve peace.” –Walter Cronkite Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the …
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Kickass and DNR Board Outrage

kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in reporting on the recent unbelievable DNR Board meeting at which Walker appointees, one of whom—Wausau tooth-jerker Fred Prehn, refuses to step down from his expired term, voted in favor of continuing to allow the poisoning of surface water …
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Kickass and the VA Waiting Room

Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes           Kickass ,the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in offering the following vary short play entitled “Waiting With Old Vets.”          Scene:  Waiting room at VA West.  The keeper enters from stage left; and retrieves number 39 from the lab scheduling device as one of …
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Kickass and the Ice Storm

NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in the gray world as it observes global icing by closing schools, suspending garbage collection, and sending out the salting trucks. It is somewhat the way the world is reacting to Putin’s circus-like machinations: protect the innocent, live with …
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Kickass at the Dorfhaus

JIP, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s assessment that the rampant decay of Western civilization has been short-stopped at the door of the Dorfhaus supper club in the crossroad community of Roxbury, where you can start with tasty Old-fashioneds and then enjoy a fine German …
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Kickass and Gators

Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper as he—the keeper remembers a February when he was waist-deep in a Florida river in the middle of the night to exercise his perverse passion of night-time fly fishing; and a woman’s voice shouted from the darkened riverbank, “There’s gators out …
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Kickass and TGIF

Jatayou, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation of the changing impact of cultural fixtures as they relate to age, such as “TGIF” now being something quite different than it once was for the keeper’s crowd of vintage has-beens.          Once the keeper and his ilk joined …
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Spin Party

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I went to a little get-together at my in-laws the other night. Since we’ve all been suffering from post-Covid burnout (although I guess it’s technically not post-Covid—not yet), they decided to invite a few friends over for drinks, and—since my brother-in-law Michael is an avowed Abraham Lincoln aficionado, …
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Dialogues on Nature Gone Wild/Letters from the Killing Fields

Photo by Francesco Ungaro from Pexels Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots Mark Mamerow, Dave. S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Hello Bots, I found this article fascinating in an almost schadenfreude sort of way… (taking pleasure in other’s woes…usually an enemy or excessively privileged one…but not always—no one in our respective purviews is immune from schadenfreude). So many animals…and …
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