Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having won the lottery of several million dollars, will be tossing $100 bills off his Vista West balcony throughout this day of Apr. 1, 2022. In keeping with the custom of the day, the keeper urges anyone catching one …
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Kickass and Weather Phrases
Brian0918 at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in assisting the keeper as he tries to see something good in everything, including the Wisconsin winter that refuses to yield to spring, points out that the incredibly stupid political events of the immediate past have produced a plethora …
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Kickass and the Brooder House
Photo by Zoe Schaeffer on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, suggests to the keeper that it may be time to reinsert into his chaotic life a “brooder house,” like the one he remembers from his boyhood farm days where he was wont to spend time in the small, Quonset hut-shaped structure soaking up the warmth …
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Kickass and Repub Breakfast
Varghese K James, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is in one of his dilemmas of despair as he attempts to adjust his life to accommodate the guidance of Repub deep thinkers who, under a proposed Perdue Poultry Act, are drafting protection for chicken eggs …
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Kickass and Divisiveness
DonkeyHotey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is having difficulty getting into step with the current movement to address political divisiveness by sitting down with and listening to those who hold opposing views. The hard facts are that he—the keeper, does not have the reasoned restraint …
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Kickass and Mike’s Birthday
Selena N. B. H. from Fayetteville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper as he—the keeper, suffers from “time” contortions as he attempts to deal with the fact of his youngest child—Mike, celebrating a 65th birthday. The math would make the keeper’s age…….oh, never mind! Suffice to say …
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Kickass Tackles the Weather
Liz Sales, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has decided to defy the old saw that everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. His plan of “doing something,” has its base in the human capacity for enduring outright, wholesale stupidity as it …
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Kickass and the Catalytic Converter
Photo by Kevin Bidwell: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-working-under-his-car-1388278/ By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that in the interests of retaining a semblance of relevance, the keeper now has a job which he created for himself after the bus at Vista West, where he and Phyllis live, was temporarily out of service because some jerk crawled under …
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Kickass Goes to the Dentist
See page for author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on the keeper’s talent for so easily slipping from the sublime to the ridiculous, exemplified today in the wake of Phyllis’s great health report and moving on to the keeper’s trip to the dentist. There is, on the …
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Kickass and Good Cancer News
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, does not often get the opportunity to pass along the kind of great news that dominates this day for the keeper and Phyllis as they absorb yesterday’s report from the UW Carbone Cancer center’s Dr. Bradley that after two years of various treatment regimens, …
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Kickass and Perfect Spring Day
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, wondered, with rest of the populace, what they did to deserve Mar. 20, 2022 with its first-day-of-spring perfection. In the warm hours of its sunny brilliance, there was an invitation to do something as participatory and extraneous as the …
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Kickass and Stokes Name
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is once again lamenting the close association of his name with the villain of the day as in “Putin Stokes Russian Memories,” which was a recent NYT headline on a story about Putin spreading propaganda lies to cause …
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