Attribution: Photo by Kyra Kleijnen on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis adjusting to the slowly lengthening days by limiting their exposure to political tinged fast-talk and tuning in to gentle music accompanied by images of peaceful scenery. Prior to making the change the keeper frequently found himself gnawing on a …
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Kickass and Polar Plunge
Attribution: eagle102.net, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper is anxious to firm up his and Phyllis’s excuse for not attending the big Mazomanie Winter Solstice bonfire and the subsequent plunge into Black Earth Creek. The fact is they were both busy with their recliner clinical trials …
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Kickass and Playing Santa
Attribution: John Malmin, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper doing a dive into Christmases past, WAY past when he was a State Journal staffer back in the ‘60’s and city editor Glen Miller ordered him to come up with an annual Christmas story to entertain the …
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Kickass and Epstein Files
Attribution: United States Justice Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper did not think his identity would show up anywhere in the released Epstein files, but he checked anyway. And what he thought at first might be a photo of him swimming in the Epstein …
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Kickass Shouting Stella!
The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes
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Kickass and Christmas Croc
Attribution: Photo by Alvin David on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper asking the public if it has heard about the 11-foot crocodile captured in South Patrick Shores, Florida with a Golden Retriever clamped in its jaws? The purpose of bringing up such an unpleasant image follows in the mode of the diversionary …
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Kickass and Press Briefing
Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper hearing about the search for a Journalist willing to attend a White House briefing and ask the POTUS “Donald, what the f… is wrong with you?” The thinking is that such a question would mark the end …
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Kickass and New Second Amendment
By Bill Stokes Illustration by Michael DiMilo Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper promoting some revision of the 2ndamendment as follows: “The right to BARE arms means you can wear t-shirts and has nothing to do with guns. The fact of more guns than people in this country is due to a Constitutional spelling …
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Kickass and Inoculation Mishap
By Bill Stokes Attribution: James Gillray, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in acknowledging the news that a Fox Lake herd of dairy cows has been infected with the bird flu; and this of course prompts the keeper to tell Phyllis—probably not for the first time, about his inoculation …
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Kickass and Deer-Yard Night
Attribution: Photo by Nathan Karsgaard on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the inevitability of the keeper using the first bitter cold winter day to regale Phyllis with the account of his spending the night in a Bad River deer yard when the temperature dropped to 30 below and he could not buckle his snowshoes …
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Kickass and Dog in the Manger
Attribution: Harrison Weir, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting the keeper and Phyllis’s confusion with some of the seasonal stories now circulating, some using a “manger” setting, suggest that “dog in the manger” is a more appropriate theme this year than baby Jesus “asleep in the hay.” Defined …
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Kickass and Santa Letter
Attribution: Photo by Y M on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis receiving the POTUS list of executive facts to help the kids compile this year’s Letter to Santa. 1. Santa’s address has been changed from North Pole to Mar-a-Lago. 2. Santa is still a fat man but he no longer has facial …
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