Attribution: Leffler, Warren K., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s getting-acquainted-with-Chicago days with his old Army friend Bob Shepherd, a Black Southsider who was the keeper’s personal MLK and then some. As an essential experience the keeper and Bob were in the back row of a …
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Kickass Covers the Courts
Attribution: Brandonrush, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper in yet another deep dive into his newspaper clipping past with parts of an entry from his covering the courts in Stevens Point in 1958-59. The day-long hearing and trial grew out of an incident at the Parakeet Tavern …
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Kickass and the Clippings
Photo by Samet Kurtkus on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper gratefully accepting the assistance of granddaughter Sarah in once again attempting to deal with the debris of a lifetime as an ink-stained wretch in the newspaper business. “Clippings” they are called. Thousands of them in drawers, files and boxes taking up space …
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Kickass and Honorary Silver Badger
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will be cheering on Phyllis and all the “Silver Badgers” as they gather this afternoon—2 pm, at Gammon Road and Tree Lane for their weekly ICE and company protest. Joining the Silver Badger crowd, which is heavily weighted toward seniors, …
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Kickass and Good Luck
Attribution: See page for author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis offering to share their good luck on this Friday the 13th with those who need a little extra. Applicants can submit the reasons they need some extra good luck and an appropriate amount will …
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Kickass Goes to War
Attribution: DJ Mapping, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to help the keeper adjust to the POTUS plans to go to war with either Mexico or Canada, both countries obviously being highly questionable neighbors as seen in the incisive analysis of the Commander In THIEF. By way of …
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Kickass and Killer Whales
Attribution: Callan Carpenter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper exhausted from the recent sports extravaganzas and seriously thinking of getting up out of his recliner just to see if he can stand up. Between the Olympians and the Super Bowlers, not to mention the half-timers, the …
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Kickass and Superbowl Boos
Attribution: VOA News – B Allen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis finding themselves in the incredibly rare circumstance of agreeing with a POTUS decision to not attend the Superbowl tomorrow in Santa Clara because, as the POTUS says “it is too far away.” …
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Kickass and Ballpoint Pen Robbery
Attribution: Photo by Feodor Chistyakov on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper mourning the shrinking nature of the honest press and telling Phyllis that during his long journalistic tenure he tried his best to stick to the facts which seemed satisfactory to most but not all readers. When the bank in Bancroft—population less …
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Kickass and Sleeping Cop
Attribution: Photo by Jessica Smith on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper having grown up in and around a two-man police force town—Barron, recognizes the personal nature of the relationship between the “law” and the citizens. The records tend to be in the minds of the police and the policed, and the keeper …
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Kickass Looks for Hope
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis and the entire US population in struggling to survive the incredibly cruel machinations of dim-witted thugs hired by the narcissistic POTUS to traumatize, manhandle and kill the citizens in their own communities. MONEY in the hands of power-mad phonies …
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Kickass and Cigarettes
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper put in his time as a slave to the nicotine murderers with a cigarette addiction into his midlife when he managed to shake it just to show cigarette-smoking son Larry that it could be done. Larry quit cigarettes too at …
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