Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, approves the keeper’s observation that September 2022 has escaped and is at large somewhere in the calendar jungle where it is attempting to elude bounty hunters determined to capture its essence of truth and consequences for selective preservation. A move to deny that September 2022 …
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Kickass and Governor’s Mansion For Sale
Lacrossewi, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be assisting the keeper in drafting a contract for Tim Michels, the eastern billionaire who wants to add the Wisconsin gubernatorial mansion to his collection of mansions elsewhere, in effect making Wisconsin residents his property as in “plantation.” The keeper is suggesting that instead of an …
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Kickass and Sanibel
Eeviann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, comments that there was a period in the keeper’s life when he spent icy chunks of the northern winter in the balmy environs of Sanibel Island and Sarasota Fla., where hurricane Ian destroyed part of the Sanibel-Ft. Meyers causeway. While a hurricane …
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Kickass and Old Men Remember Death
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in a bit of alteration of the Ogden Nash poem that ends “But old men know when the old men die,” by adding “old dogs” to the mix. The occasion is the demise of Sugar, a small white poodle type that lived …
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Kickass and the Sheep Dip Treatment
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in observing that those who refuse to honor the will of the people by gerrymandering themselves into office or by denying the outcome of elections or refusing to abide by the expiration of appointed terms or by …
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Kickass Revisits Drink, Drank, Drunk
Photo by Vasil Korzh on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s misfortune in finding yet another box of clippings and letters from his dim, dark journalistic past that covered the time he wrote “Drink, Drank, Drunk” for the Milwaukee Journal, a series of six articles exploring the detrimental choke hold …
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Kickass and Lost Prop
Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper cheers the recent finding of the 3,000-year-old canoe at the bottom of Lake Mendota; and is reminded once again of the time that the propeller fell off his outboard as he and several highly questionable fishing companions …
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Kickass and Hanging Globe
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s reluctance to accept the inevitable limitations forced on him by aging; and announces that following a recent experience, he will not be installing any anchors in the ceiling ever again. For one thing, he has no business getting any farther up …
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Kickass and the Accordion
Tetopa, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, recognizing today as the autumnal equinox with equal amounts of stupidity and intelligence, will be contacting the public high school across the street to offer to help with endowing an accordion chair in the new music department addition …
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Kickass and Funeral Pageantry
The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, using his superpowers of communication, has it on the kind of authority that is the base of Fox Fairy tales, that aides at Mar A Lago are pouring over tapes of the recent Queen funeral pageantry to …
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Kickass as an Optimist
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper was invited by neighbor Jim Beck to speak at a breakfast meeting of the Optimist Club over across the street at a public-school facility. It went well, even to the point of nothing lethal being thrown at the keeper as …
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Kickass and Walmart Jobs
Walmart Corporate from Bentonville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, operating under the arrangement that everyone is now an unpaid employee of Walmart, took it upon himself to seek out a uniformed supervisor to suggest that a befuddled elderly couple that he had been …
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