Kickass and the Chickens

Attribution: Kolforn (Wikimedia), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in stressing the importance of respect in trans-species relationships, even the one between humans and chickens.  It is doubtful that chickens will ever work out the deal that dogs have, whereby humans take chickens for walks and …
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Kickass and the Debate

Attribution: Joe Biden: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (source: Joe Biden); User:TDKR Chicago 101 (clipping) Donald Trump: Shealah Craighead (source: White House) Сombination: krassotkin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has the feeling he and Phyllis spent last evening sitting in …
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Kickass and Travel Notes

Attribution: Yinan Chen, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop joins the keeper in offering a few random travel notes on a trip he and Phyllis made to Luca’s Wisconsin Rapids birthday party:  *Wisconsin Rapids does have rapids, visible now–with the high water, from the Highway 54 bridge. *Remnants of Wisconsin’s …
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Kickass and Two Day Shopping

Attribution: © European Union, 2024, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper as he continues to fall even farther behind in trying to adjust to the ever-changing, all-American preoccupation with shopping. The keeper’s resistance to shopping obviously has its origin in his very first solo experience …
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Kickass and The “Wombers”

Photo by Thom Milkovic on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, announces that the keeper appreciates Phyllis’s enthusiasm in joining him in celebrating the completion of a first draft of his 78,000 word novel—working title “The Wombers” which is plotted around the take-over of everything by women fed up with how it has been under male …
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Kickass and the SCOTUS

Attribution: Photo by Mr. Kjetil Ree., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, goes along with the keeper in accepting the verity that he—the keeper, has neither the patience nor the smarts to be a supreme court justice, given the “high” court’s apparent lengthy deliberation in deciding that a man …
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Kickass and the Windmill

Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is not much help to the keeper as he—the keeper, is increasingly beset with quirky attempts to remain relevant. So the keeper has this windmill on the balcony at Vista West where he and Phyllis reside. It is a totally useless thing in that …
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Kickass and Hot Court

Attribution: Lorie Shaull from Washington, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper accepts the irrefutable evidence that the world has already gone to hell in a handbasket and the temperature will continue to increase until the MAGA cult dingbats and the SCOTUS members melt …
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