Attribution: Eugène Delacroix , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s life-long amicable relationship with chickens keeps forcing him to consider the price of eggs as the issue most needing his expert attention, even exceeding the obvious ongoing coup of the US government. The coup, by single …
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Kickass 2/4/25
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in appreciating one of life’s truly great moments as the keeper’s granddaughter Natalie hears her and Elliot’s first-born Augie babble “Ma-ma Da-da” for the first time. In keeping with the keeper’s clan members’ inclination to be talkers as opposed …
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Kickass and Not Funny Posts
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper at a loss in attempting to compose some light-hearted Facebook post in the face of the global catastrophe now being dictated by the new administration. Like jokes for grieving survivors at a crash site, anything humorous the keeper attempts to do …
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Kickass and Groundhog Day 2025
Attribution: EleetCanoe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, using his rare ability to know almost everything before it happens, reports on the latest executive order from the current POTUS: “Executive Order # 365: Starting right now–this very minute, all groundhogs are hereby notified to turn …
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Kickass and Dumbest Politico
Attribution: U.S. Department of Transportation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is working with the keeper to reassign the title of dumbest Wisconsin politician from long term champion MAGA-loving Sen. Johnson to former Rep. Sean Duffy who is the new secretary of transportation and made the following statement about …
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Kickass and Blame
Attribution: Vector Portal, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is admittedly slow to catch on, but is finally recognizing the importance of “blame” in maintaining relevance in today’s Land of Oz. Under the precepts of the “blame” culture when something bad happens, such as an …
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Kickass and Old Haircuts
Attribution: François GOGLINS, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, was not involved as the keeper and Phyllis both visited Cheryl at the Vista West hair salon for the usual professional treatment that made them both young and beautiful, more so perhaps in Phyllis’s case. But as it happens with …
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Kickass and Wisconsin Name
Attribution: USFWS Mountain-Prairie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, cautions the keeper to remain calm in the face of rumors that the MEGA efforts to rename things includes an attempt to rename WISCONSIN to eliminate the last three letters “sin” in its name. A POTUS staffer told the Fox …
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Kickass and River’s Birthday
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports from the birthday party for the keeper’s great grandson “River” which was held in the house the keeper built 25 years ago on a Mazomanie hilltop and where River now lives with his family. The following is the keeper’s birthday message to River: …
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Kickass and Deadlines
Attribution: Cbaile19, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, acknowledges the keeper noting that for most of his long column-writing life he has been burdened with coming up with subject matter for a message to readers. There were many close calls when failure seemed inevitable, and then something would occur to …
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Kickass and Last POTUS
Attribution: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper as he tries to claim privilege by noting that given his age, odds are that the recently elected POTUS will be the last one the keeper experiences before his little pile of …
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Kickass and Eight-Year-Old Repeat
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Incredibly, Kickass gets the morning off by using a post from eight years ago exactly as it appeared then: Kickass, the doorstop dog, with his fathomless array of information sources recently hacked into an exchange between Russia and the Trump Camp.RUSS: We’re thinking of decriminalizing domestic abuse, do …
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