Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes, along with the keeper, Phyllis and thousands of Sunday’s “Hands Off” demonstrators, that having made their feelings known they will now demand that the most recent POTUS election be declared null and void on the grounds of illegal vote buying, easily proven by …
Read
Category:Humor
Kickass and No First Dog
Attribution: Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis and the entire citizenry on this April 5, 2025 to message the demented chief herding mutt that he is not qualified to take the herd down the road to greener pastures and he needs to turn himself in to the …
Read
Kickass and Bill Veeck
Attribution: US Marine Corps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reminds the keeper that the baseball season is off and running and it is time for his annual lament about the editor who, to the keeper’s consternation, cut Bill Veeck’s wooden leg out of one of the keeper’s Tribune …
Read
Kickass and Tariffs
Attribution: Michael Coghlan from Adelaide, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, bypasses the keeper and Phyllis in offering his own canine explanation of just how the orange poodle’s tariff system works: “First, consider the world to be a big tree which all of the male dogs have been …
Read
Kickass Thanks Elon
Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, having forever marked Wisconsin as his territory, joins the keeper and Phyllis in sending a thank-you note to Elon for his generous participation in the recent state supreme court election won by Susan Crawford: “Elon: “Thank you so much for helping …
Read
Kickass and the April Fool
Attribution: Osmar Schindler (German, 1869–1927), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, turns this April Fools Day over to the keeper: THE APRIL FOOL “Who’s the biggest April fool? “Not me, not you, we’re cool. “Is it Elon Musk as the loan arranger “Buying votes as the foreign stranger? “Is …
Read
Kickass and Mr. Whipple
Attribution: Photo by Colourblind Kevin on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the word that if you are old enough to know that Mr. Whipple was a TV celebrity as a result of his “Please don’t squeeze the Charmin” toilet tissue ads, then you might remember when he visited the Green Bay area and …
Read
Kickass and the Hodag
Attribution: The Wide World Magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in celebrating the capture of what was first thought to be the Rhinelander Hodag but turns out to be Elon Musk who was nabbed while trying to stuff currency into the personal body …
Read
Kickass and ICE
Attribution: Cgoodall, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that it is only a matter of time until he and Phyllis are accosted by black clad masked young men who demand that they come along peacefully as the deportation process has advanced to their category—that being “elderly …
Read
Kickass and Mike’s Birthday
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in wishing a belated happy birthday to the keeper’s son Mike and reminding him once again that his birth was not a big enough deal to interfere with the keeper’s fishing. On the way home from the birthing hospital …
Read
Kickass and Founders Day
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, napped as the keeper and Phyllis joined a community room full of Vista West residents at a “Founders Day” dinner, a very nice white tablecloth, wine and rose affair put on by director Jeanne and her capable staff. It all required Phyllis to dress …
Read
Kickass Hands it Off
Attribution: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes and Bill Mullen Kickass and the keeper hand it off to old Tribune friend Pulitzer winner Bill Mullen for his response to yesterday’s Kickass post about Jim Lovell on his 96th birthday. Thanks, Bill. “And to think that Lovell grew up as a Wisconsin kid, …
Read