Kickass and Plastic Bags

Attribution: Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sometimes joins the keeper in the morning as he watches the students walk across the parking lot from their parked cars to Memorial High School on the other side of Gammon Road. It is the keeper’s observation that the students …
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Kickass and Weather Forecast

Attribution: Gus Polly, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis will be filling in from time to time for some of those dedicated experts who are being fired by the Musky Money Monkeys who now infest and manage the WHITE White House. Starting with …
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Kickass, State Supreme Court, and Musk

Attribution: Fine Apples, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in observing the ongoing auction of Wisconsin’s supreme court as Elon the musk is the current high bidder in the April 1st election and obviously wants the state’s highest court as a trinket to display in …
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Kickass and Wisconsin Dead Friend Zoe

Attribution: Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper and Phyllis in their updating of the list of political absurdities that define life as a “Badger.”  Add to the long-standing MINORITY REPRESENTATION in the legislature, the fact that Wisconsin is one of only two states where the tax structure makes it …
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Kickass and Relating to Chickens

Attribution: Roy E. Plotnick, Jessica M. Theodor & Thomas R. Holtz Jr., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has concluded his research on which came first the chicken or the human and in keeping with the benevolence of great scientists before him is ready to …
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Kickass and “My Dead Friend Zoe”

Attribution: Photo by Chris Murray on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, does not do movies, which he regrets after listening to the keeper and Phyllis rave about the recently released “My Dead Friend Zoe” which was created, written and produced by the keeper’s grandnephew Kyle Hausman Stokes and is currently in local theaters. It is …
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Kickass and April Fool

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, defers to the keeper and Phyllis this day in the midst of the calendar confusion that occurs between February and March and which is supposedly corrected by a “Leap year.” This year the February-March confusion was further complicated by the unexpected appearance of the …
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Kickass and Dad’s Wagon Rides

Attribution: Photo by Luismi Sánchez on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, turns it over to the keeper on this very windy day to remember a story his dear old dad told of his own boyhood in North Dakota when he hooked his coaster wagon to big tumbleweeds and let the wind pull him across the …
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