Kickass Speaks Norwegian

Attribution: Werner Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as he tunes in to the information that everyone except for a handful of white, Christian, racist billionaires is destined for deportation to the countries of their family’s origin, the keeper recognizes the virtue of brushing up on …
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Kickass and the Raven

Attribution: Dario Taraborelli, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis in trying to solve the mystery of the tapping and rapping just over their computer positions located near the balcony of their top floor Vista West apartment. The rapping began early in the morning and consisted …
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Kickass and the Haircut

Attribution: Mostafameraji, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is under the questionable impression that as long as he has some connection with a “school” he must be learning something, hence his trek across the parking lot to the “Aveda” beauty “school” for a haircut.  The school …
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Kickass and Grandma’s Sewing Maching

Attribution: Panjigally, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper’s family as it struggles with the problem of what to do with grandma’s old sewing machine. The dilemma is as common as weeds, and has generated multiple businesses to help with recycling “junk.” There are, of course, …
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Kickass Sues the POTUS

Attribution: G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, overheard the keeper tell Phyllis that he is suing the POTUS. The keeper’s basic case will be based on the verity that while he accepts that he is frequently dumb, he is not consistently as dumb as the daily …
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Kickass and Laila’s Bobcat

Attribution: Photo by Omar Ramadan on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis were invited by Bonnie and Ed to visit with one of their granddaughters–Laila, who had expressed an interest in writing. Ever willing to talk about himself, the keeper told his story of how Ed Gein, the Plainfield grave-robbing …
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Kickass and Brain Protection

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s advice to not assume that simply because your brain is kicked around like a deflated soccer ball by out-of-bounds White House scrubs that it is ready to process the likes of the recent legislative hearing conducted by Senator Paul and his …
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Kickass Runs for Dogcatcher

Attribution: Morning Oregonian, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, napped as the keeper and Phyllis listened to the televised debate among the five candidates competing to represent the Democrats in the coming gubernatorial election.  As he napped, Kickass dreamed that he was a candidate for dog catcher and was …
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