Alan D. Wilson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has spent much of his long life trying to make amends for his early farm-boy years when his thoughtless marauding with his .22 rifle made no bird or animal safe. Etched deeply into the keeper’s guilt …
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Kickass and Parenting
Afshin10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper acknowledges that while the rules for parenting are so simple that creatures on the lowest rungs follow them successfully by rearing generations of species replacements; complications can set in with parenting when cars and guns saturate the procreating …
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Kickass and Women’s Body Rights
Denali National Park and Preserve, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aware that the keeper made a career out of expressing himself, watched as he—the keeper, and Phyllis listened to the debate over renewing the practice of men—mostly old white men, telling women how they—women, must use their bodies …
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Kickass and School Gun Deaths
Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that a daily feature of the keeper’s life is watching the flow of students to and from the high school just across the street; and he notes that part of that view is the two …
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Kickass and the Lost Wallet
Prefeitura de Olinda from Brasil, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that while the keeper denies that it is his “hobby,” he spends an astounding amount of time looking for items he has misplaced or downright lost. Yesterday it was his wallet, containing, of course, credit cards, personal identities …
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Kickass and Mackenzie Pheasants
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, napped at home as the keeper and Phyllis spent the waning hours of the 2021 deer hunting season hiking a trail at the MacKenzie Outdoor Education Center near Poynette where a sign displays the famous Aldo Leopold quote about some people needing wild things. …
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Kickass and Bird Dinosaurs
NobuTamura email:nobu.tamura@yahoo.com www.palaeocritti.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the new digs for Phyllis and the keeper–being on the 5th floor of a recently completed structure that is isolated from most natural plant growth, is not exactly bird friendly; and this has moved the keeper to court the …
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Kickass and Pigs and Mothers
kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s fascination with the Amsterdam experiment of using pigs to reduce bird-aircraft collision damage at the main airport; and he—the keeper, wonders if a similar application might be used to lessen the harmful impact of idiots in the legislatures and …
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Kickass and Hamburger Forehead
Tomáš Kebert & umimeto.org, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper as his forehead takes on the appearance of raw hamburger in response to a proactive skin cancer treatment prescribed by the VA dermatologists. Timed to coordinate with Phyllis’s UW cancer treatment regimen that calls for quarantining, the keeper will …
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Kickass and 11/25/21
Frances Brundage , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, offers the following On the gray morning of Nov. 25, 2021: Thanksgiving Day! Snow. Thanks, For Nov. 25, 2021. Nice to be part of it. See more at… The Bill Stokes Author Page
Kickass Renames High School
Gina B, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, shares Madison living quarters with the keeper and Phyllis that overlooks the high school where, long ago, the keeper’s sons did their versions of being students; and he—the keeper, finds it noteworthy that the school is changing its name from James …
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Kickass and Politicizing Waukesha
Photo by Memento Media on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is working with the keeper to discourage Tucker Carlson from portraying the Waukesha Christmas Parade slaughterer as a heroic vote manipulator working on behalf of Repubs maligned by the Dems. The politicization of the unfathomable Waukesha horror is only a matter of trend time, as …
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