Kickass and Companion Chickens

Dominoe3045,Ā CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is doing his best to assist the keeper in his campaign to bring chickens into a more respectable role in the scheme of things by promoting the concept of ā€œcompanion chickensā€ as in the companion dog mode. Having so far been denied …
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Kickass and Dumb Dog

Attribution: Phil WilliamsĀ /Ā Dog and duck By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has engaged the keeper in defending the verity that dogs witness people doing far more dumb things than the other way around, which made the dumb-dog incident at a recent river-side family gathering at Mikeā€™s particularly noteworthy. As food, drink and frivolity were …
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Kickass and Coyote Mange

nature80020,Ā CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeperā€™s son Rick, visiting from his Denver suburb home, casually tells of his success in treating a local coyote family for mange.  After observing the nearly hairless mother, Rick sent away for some sulfodene, the standard mange treatment drug, inserted …
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Kickass and Lawton Labor Day

Anthony Stewart,Ā CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in saluting the labor unions for what they once meant to the dignity and power of working people like the keeperā€™s crane-operator father. For a long time, Labor Day meant a fishing weekend with John Lawton, Madison labor …
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Kickass and Dan Wisniewski

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper was among the hundreds of friends who gathered Thursday at Holy Wisdom to honor the life of Dan Wisniewski, who died last year.  Dan was an exceptional man of limitless accomplishments, and a trout fishing companion to many, including the keeper …
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Kickass and Reincarnation Edit

PROPOLI87,Ā CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is withdrawing his reincarnation application to do some editing: instead of reappearing in the next cellular go-round as a springer spaniel as originally requested, the keeper is changing that to ā€œGerman Shepherd,ā€ his thinking being that coming back …
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Kickass and New Car Prices

Richard Smith,Ā CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports  that the keeper recently lamented that if he could collect on a 70-year-old Army gambling debt of $32 with compound interest, it would be enough to buy a new car, which he will shortly be needing.  The keeper is to math as …
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Kickass and “Flea on a Dog” Faith

JBennett (WMF),Ā CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper in grappling with the spate of new space information detailing the ā€œlight yearā€ size of things, and unfailingly labeled as ā€œbeyond comprehension.ā€ Well, yeah, the keeper accepts that he does not comprehend how the big bang is …
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Kickass and Saturday

Peter Paul RubensĀ , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in having no doubt that the creation story clearly designates Sunday as a day of rest, but is less clear about just what to do about Saturday, it being the day when Adam and Eve were created …
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