Attribution: James McTaggart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, lies low today as the keeper works to develop his “Ailment Complaint Guide” for use primarily in elderly environs but also useful for all ages in responding to the ubiquitous “How are you?” in even casual encounters. The following card …
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Kickass and Tobacco Spitting
Attribution: University of Texas at Arlington Photograph Collection, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to be helpful as the keeper goes off on a Monday morning tangent and wonders where the tobacco industry located the spittoons at the POTUS birthday party on the White House trash dumping area? …
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Kickass and Display Letters
Attribution: Dclemens1971, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog is assisting the keeper and Phyllis with the international garage sale today as it offers the specialty item of 18 outdoor display letters with the following advertising: “For sale: 18 outdoor display letters. Lightly used in a bogus scheme to destroy …
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Kickass and Radio Ban
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper was told yesterday in discussion prior to a radio interview that the word “kickass” could not be said on the air as it was considered profanity and might be offensive to some listeners. This news caused the keeper to briefly consider …
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Kickass at Madison Square Garden
Attribution: Zakarie Faibis, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, as a Madison, WI resident has never had occasion to visit Madison Square Garden in New York, but the keeper has, once, when the Democrats gathered there in 1973 to nominate Jimmy Carter as their presidential candidate. The incident may …
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Kickass Gets Storm Ready
Attribution: Mathias Krumbholz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, gets in extra napping this morning of June 10, 2026 as the keeper and Phyllis batten down the hatches in preparation for the violent weather predicted over the next two days. “Preparation” for them has limited application in their multi-storied …
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Kickass and Barn Talk
Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, works with the keeper to explain “barn talk” under the terms of which the POTUS, during his recent stop in a Wisconsin barn, totally lost his cool and said he hated everybody except himself. Having grown up in a community where …
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Kickass and “Ah, the Women”
Image by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be up and yapping with the keeper and Phyllis with the following announcement: BILL AND PHYLLIS ARE HAVING A BOOK! It’s title is Ah, the Women! and it tells the story of how women take over the world to save it from the disastrous excesses …
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Kickass and Free Fun of D-Day
Attribution: National Archives and Records Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper and Phyllis’s acknowledgment of this June 6 as yet another “D-Day” slowly disappearing into the cultural topsoil. It’s assimilation is aided today by such things as the DNR’s promotion of free “fun days” when …
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Kickass and Old Pick-up Lines
Annotation: Photo by Artyom Kabajev on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, as a resident of the independent living part of Vista West on Madison’s west side where the keeper and Phyllis live, hears a lot of interesting comments which, fortunately, being a cast-iron dog, he is unable to repeat. Recently, for example, his attention was …
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Kickass and Generational Communication
Photo courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on a meeting of the keeper’s granddaughter Sarah, with Phyllis and the keeper to brainstorm how to improve communication between the generations. After the obvious agreement that banning all phone use unless you are alone, the discussion went in a number of …
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Kickass and Andy Rooney
Attribution: Stephenson Brown, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in wondering how to get a message to the late Andy Rooney regarding a job opportunity on 60-Minutes, where Andy was a fixture for a long time. That message would advise Andy to stay wherever he is …
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