Attribution: Patrick Fitzgerald from Atlanta, GA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will assist the keeper with his burden on this Thanksgiving Day of being thankful for what you’ve got, which in the keeper’s case is the flu. In keeping with their policy of complete sharing, Phyllis passed …
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Kickass and the Flu
Attribution: NIAID, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog regrets that he and the keeper are unable to share their wisdom with the world today. They will also not be enjoying Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow in Mazomanie. Phyllis had a rather severe case of the ‘flu earlier this week, and it …
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Kickass Hibernates
Attribution: Michael Himbeault, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will not question the keeper’s conclusion on this nasty weather day that, like many of the lesser creatures, he has finally accomplished the life-long goal of hibernation. It was there right in front of him but he was too dense to …
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Kickass Remembers Rosalynn
Attribution: National Archives and Records Administration , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper as he reviews how his life was given meaning by the women in it– to this very day as Phyllis assumes the burden of getting him through the day with a minimum of stumbling …
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Kickass and Gun Users
Attribution: National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting yet another Sunday when the guns are out in Wisconsin in such numbers as would equip an army. Many thousands of guns of all descriptions are in the hands of amateur users …
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Kickass and Opening Morning
Attribution: USDA photo by Scott Bauer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is out there on his stand this opening-morning of the traditional Wisconsin deer hunt, and if it is symbolic only it is no less of an emotional trip. The opportunity to be alone …
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Kickass Behind the Times
Attribution: ArtNow314, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper is late today with his ranting and would offer up a bunch of explanations all of which have to do with……..oh never mind! It would just come off as his constant lamenting the burden of living in …
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Kickass Finds His Way
Attribution: Ian Sane from Oregon, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, wags his cast iron tail at not being part of the keeper’s latest fiasco which should have been as simple as three old men meeting for lunch at downtown Capital Lakes. In his perpetual fog of false …
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Kickass Remembers Walking to School
Attribution: H. A. Brendekilde , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting the abuse suffered by those who have the audacity to mention that they walked to a country school through thick and thin and winter blizzards. Just as these ancients get no respect for having …
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Kickass and the Unacceptable
Attribution: Al Jazeera, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper’s dilemma of waking up each day to a growing list of things that he and Phyllis must accept as members of the human race: Here it is for Nov. 13, 2023! *Dead kids under the rubble …
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Kickass and Gerrymandered Geese
Attribution: Jocelyn Anderson, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s observation that during the close-to-a-century that he has been alive his relationship with the Canada geese has gone from farm-boy fascination with the high-flying V formations that signaled distant other-worlds of romantic wildness and mystery, to …
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Kickass and Veterans Day
Attribution: Archangel12, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s status as a veteran has always been a complication for him, on the one hand the recognition and reward it garners from a grateful public and on the other, marking the keeper as having been duped by …
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