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 ācompanion 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 Mikeās 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 keeperās 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 keeperās crane-operator father. For a long time, Labor Day meant a fishing weekend with John Lawton, Madison labor …
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Kickass and First Day of School
Airman 1st Class Jensen Stidham, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in congratulating all those young troopers who made it through the first week of school; and he warns against student loans, at least until second grade, despite what the kids might hear from the Republican …
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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 Secret Documents
MarkBuckawicki, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that it is obvious that the DOJ is not going to be of any help to the keeper in disposing of the boxes of documents he has accumulated over a long writing career. Given current attention to that sort of thing, 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 āGerman 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 Forgives Debt
PatilRohan0,Ā CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is joining the debt-forgiveness crowd by forgiving the debt owned to him by a Texas individual as a result of playing pinochle for money while both were members of an Infantry I&R platoon in Korea some 70 years …
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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 ālight yearā size of things, and unfailingly labeled as ābeyond 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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