Attribution: Scum on Lake near Palm House, Kew Gardens, London by Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper considers the aspiring POTUS Repub candidates comparable to the line waiting in front of a port-a-potty at the country fair—their need is not for relief but for …
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Kickass and Artificial Intelligence
Attribution: IITU Pictures from Geneva, Switzerland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has more or less given up on deciding just where the much-ballyhooed threat of artificial intelligence fits into his and Phyllis’s “fight-or-flee” existence. It would seem to him that AI with its firm …
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Kickass and Parking Justice
Attribution: howtostartablogonline.net, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, with current attention concentrated on the courts, remembers a court incident back in his student days when he got a ticket for parking too close to a crosswalk. The ticket was for $10, not an insignificant sum …
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Kickass and Wisconsin State Cocktail
Attribution:Steven Miller, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper may have to revise his assessment of the current Repub minority-representation Wisconsin legislature as a narcissistic do-nothing-except-for-the-rich bunch of self-serving revisionist gerrymandered obstructionists. With a record of contrary disregard for populace needs and desires and basic decency, …
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Kickass and Beer Bird Feeder
Attribution: Cat Lee Ball, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, says the keeper, in his efforts to fit into the natural community and seasonal cycles, will be removing the sweet water from the hummingbird feeder on his balcony and filling it with beer, Spotted Cow of course. It is …
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Kickass and DST Fall
Attribution: Alasdair, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, expresses some doubt about the keeper’s post yesterday in which he specified adjusting to DST by setting the clocks ahead by one hour. It was a test of readers’ alertness, of course, and it forcefully made the point that in the …
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Kickass Takes on DST
Attribution: USMC Archives from Quantico, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will not be with the rest of the herd as it participates in DST at 2 am tomorrow and sets the clocks ahead by one hour. Instead, in the spirit of time manipulation, …
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Kickass and Weight Programs
Attribution: Frank C. Müller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are deep into weight loss programs, Phyllis’s being overseen by a personal health scale that communicates with her and was recently upset when the keeper innocently stepped on it. Obviously not programed to …
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Kickass Gets New Tires
Attribution: David Adam Kess, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, goes along with the keeper in more or less ignoring the big picture and celebrating the positive things in life on a more personal scale—the things he can do something about. So it is with a certain satisfaction, if …
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Kickass and Smart Humans
Attribution: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes along with the keeper how there is no species other than human that devotes its major resources and energies to destroying its nests, killing its children and poisoning its environment while cheering itself on as spiritually pure …
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Kickass and Butterfly Snowflakes
Attribution: Photo by Kacper Szczechla on Unsplash, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is big on accepting things but is sorely challenged this morning as a few random snowflakes drift down out of a gray sky with the obvious message that there is more to come, …
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Kickass and Boxcar Halloween
Attribution: LuigiGT12, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper cannot allow the Halloween of 2023 to pass without recalling once again the great multi city “trick” of moving a boxcar in Cameron to block off Highway 8, the major east-west route across northern Wisconsin. Just how …
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