Attribution: Photo by Joel Danielson on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, works with the keeper and Phyllis in their efforts to help people understand just what is going on with the POTUS as he surrounds himself with a posse of narcissistic billionaires while going off to China to try to trade his war for a …
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Kickass and Hair
Attribution: Mostafameraji, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, having adjusted long ago to his hairless condition, notes that both the keeper and Phyllis lucked out in the hair department, the keeper having dodged genes from his bald father that brother Orv picked up. Phyllis is equally fortunate with her lush …
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Kickass and Being a “Bitch”
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, stayed home on Mother’s Day, dreaming about his mother, and wondered about the uproar over the report that the POTUS called a black woman reporter a “bitch.” In the canine world, of course, “bitch” is a respectable label for any and all female dogs, …
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Kickass and the Wind
Attribution: TapTheForwardAssist, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, naps as the keeper and Phylis recall the old Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem “The Wind” with its laudatory lines about the wondrous and mysterious ways of the wind, and the questions it poses for those who choose to hear them. Obviously …
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Kickass and Helping the Old
Attribution: Photo by Jem Sahagun on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper’s assessment that you are never too old to learn how to graciously handle the challenges that come your way. Most recently, and with seeming increased frequency, there is the challenge of accepting the kindly proffered assistance of young people when …
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Kickass Guns for Mother’s Day
Attribution: Photo by Jay Rembert on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the news from the keeper that just in time for Mother’s Day, the Trump gang that couldn’t shoot straight is pushing through a change in USPS regs to make it easier to ship guns through the mail. With the comment period on …
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Kickass and Home on the Range
Attribution: Frederic Remington, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has occasionally been moved to howling in accompaniment to the keeper’s singing, and recently they have collaborated on “Home, Home on the Range,” with Phyllis joining in with aggressive harmony. The lyrics-“Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam …
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Kickass and Birthday Parties
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis among the many attending the 100the birthday party of Pat who, as a fellow Vista West resident, told her assembled family and party guests about the importance of birthday parties. The most recent birthday party prior to Pat’s for …
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Kickass Gets a Shot in the Eye
Attribution: BruceBlaus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins Phyllis in telling the keeper to stop feeling sorry for himself just because today is the day he checks in with the VA eye clinic in the routine of eye shots to ward off the progression of macular degeneration. It …
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Kickass and Older Cousins
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis were on hand when 16-month-old Augie experienced one of the greatest days of his life at four-year-old Blaize’s birthday party. It happened at one of the clan’s river-rat haunts and it was the day Augie met a passel …
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Kickass and His Silver Walker
Illustration courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper is still searching for ways to adjust to the intrusion of a walker into his life, solely as an occasional balance aid and never to be acknowledged as yet another reminder that he is damn old and hopes to get …
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Kickass and Two-Toed Sloth
Attribution: Photo by Bennet Robin Fabian on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in their efforts at including all species in the daily commentary by noting that a 20-year-old two-toed sloth has transferred from the Milwaukee zoo to the Vilas Park Zoo in Madison. Incredibly, even as close as it is …
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