Attribution: Maarten Honnebier, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper in possession of a secret White House memo that seeks the services of guard dogs to accompany ICE agents on their visits to schools and parking lots where very dangerous little foreign felons lurk. The secret document …
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Tightening the Screws
Attribution: Chad Davis, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter I like to think of myself (perhaps generously) as something of a handyman. I’ve made a few repairs around the house. I’ve fixed leaky faucets, running toilets, and squeaky doors I’ve changed storm windows, tuned up our lawnmower, and preformed other sundry houselhold tasks. …
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Kickass Delivers a Piano
The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes
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Kickass Milks the Cows
Attribution: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Common By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper offering to teach the ICE agents how to milk cows, a skill that heretofore had been performed by those who were more recent immigrants than all the rest of us and who needed to lay …
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Christmas Spirit 2.0
Attribution: Sheila Sund from Salem, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter This piece will be published on Christmas Day, 2025, so Merry Christmas to everyone. May God bless us, every one—and God knows we need it. Despite enduring one of the most malignant, avaricious, spiteful, and vindictive men to ever hold …
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The Pen in Hand’s Collection of Unconventional Christmas Moments: “Christmas on the Border, 1929”
Attribution: YIRO5005, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Christmas on the Border, 1929 by Alberto Rios By Geoff Carter The holiday season is all about family tradition. Whether it’s about going to Midnight Mass, carving the Christmas ham, avoiding the mother-in-law’s homemade eggnog, or sampling Grandma’s oyster stew, traditions are what makes our holidays special. But …
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Kickass and All Americans
Attribution: archivesnews, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the door stop dog, notes there are similar results in sniffing up those masked ICE guys with their disguises and hostility, and the scents given off by those with their street signs and chants protesting the emergence of Nazism to replace Democracy: They all have …
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Kickass and ICE
Attribution: DHSgov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in sending the following message to the thousands of ICE agents who daily come with uniforms and masks and guns and clubs and bulletproof vests to assault harmless berry pickers and day laborers and cow milkers …
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Kickass and ICE
Attribution: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, says the keeper would like to inform the ICE gestapo goons that as a descendent of Norwegian immigrants on his mother’s side he will not be going peacefully when the loony- tune squads arrive all masked up …
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Kickass and ICE
Attribution: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, naps through most of the keeper’s poetry excesses but not this one: WHEN ICE APPEARS “How do you act when ICE appears “Do you shake with dread and untold fears? “When did we cross that commenting line …
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Dialogues on Busting the Bench: Walking on thin ICE
Attribution: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark O., Mark M., Dave S., Dennis C., and Geoff Carter Awaiting our boots on the ground bots to shine light on this one. Some thought starters: Now…about that 2 year old, future drug dealer…rapist…serial killer… But that’s a pretty …
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Kickass and ICE
Attribution: Cgoodall, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that it is only a matter of time until he and Phyllis are accosted by black clad masked young men who demand that they come along peacefully as the deportation process has advanced to their category—that being “elderly …
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