Kickass and Naked Gardening Day

Tainted Fruit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes          Kickass, the doorstop dog, constantly making excuses for the keeper’s inclination to screw things up, is stepping in to try to explain how he—the keeper, managed to confuse Mother’s Day—the first Sunday in May, with Naked Gardening Day—the first Saturday in May. …
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Kickass and Gravity Vision

Jwisloski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will hold the keeper’s hand/paw today as he—the keeper, awaits word on the timing of tomorrow’s surgery to address the damage done to his field of vision by the insidious long- term force of gravity. It is one thing for gravity to …
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Kickass and Sleeping in Parking Lot

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes         Kickass, the doorstop dog, like the keeper, takes sleeping locations for granted—comfortable beds, recliners, couches, all with built in reassurance that waking up will occur in a secure, warm place where a nutritious and delicious breakfast is only a few steps away.          It was that kind …
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Kickass and Misogyny

Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes          Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper in sorting through the emergence of the “Misogyny Monarchy” as it is being crafted by the US Supine Court according to hints about a coming decision that, in a Darwinian U-turn, will take the tribe back …
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Kickass and Birds Aren’t Real

Ismael Olea, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes   Kickass, the doorstop dog, does not often get an opportunity to report that the keeper is put into a state of euphoria by something on TV, but it happened with the “Birds aren’t real” piece on 60-Minutes Sunday:          THERE IS HOPE!          Young people have taken the …
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Kickass and Mayday

Photo by Alex Martinez on Unsplash          Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper as he shouts, “MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MAYDAY!” as loudly as possible in the hope that he will be rescued from his slovenly way of life and made productive again, perhaps in the mode of those reporters at the WH correspondents’ …
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Kickass and Bird Migration

Antonio, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes          Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in his fascination with the fact that, according to ornithologists, 340 million birds will migrate across the skies of the US tonight.            The incredible timeless night migration of birds is now being negatively affected by human …
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Kickass and Attenborough

David AttenboroughDepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade website – www.dfat.gov.au, CC BY 3.0 AU, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s assessment that watching the PBS “Climate Change” program hosted by David Attenborough produced the sensation of being aboard a doomed airliner. The program’s take-away for the keeper was …
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Kickass and Elon Musk

Pablo Carlos Budassi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes          Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s confusion in noting the simultaneity of Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter’s BS megaphone, and the local PBS begathon’s pleas for a few dollars to keep disseminating the truth and consequences of daily …
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