MarkBuckawicki, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that it is obvious that the DOJ is not going to be of any help to the keeper in disposing of the boxes of documents he has accumulated over a long writing career. Given current attention to that sort of thing, the keeper …
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Kickass and Reincarnation Edit
PROPOLI87, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is withdrawing his reincarnation application to do some editing: instead of reappearing in the next cellular go-round as a springer spaniel as originally requested, the keeper is changing that to “German Shepherd,” his thinking being that coming back …
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Kickass and New Car Prices
Richard Smith, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper recently lamented that if he could collect on a 70-year-old Army gambling debt of $32 with compound interest, it would be enough to buy a new car, which he will shortly be needing. The keeper is to math as …
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Kickass Forgives Debt
PatilRohan0, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is joining the debt-forgiveness crowd by forgiving the debt owned to him by a Texas individual as a result of playing pinochle for money while both were members of an Infantry I&R platoon in Korea some 70 years …
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Kickass and “Flea on a Dog” Faith
JBennett (WMF), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper in grappling with the spate of new space information detailing the “light year” size of things, and unfailingly labeled as “beyond comprehension.” Well, yeah, the keeper accepts that he does not comprehend how the big bang is …
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Kickass and Saturday
Peter Paul Rubens , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in having no doubt that the creation story clearly designates Sunday as a day of rest, but is less clear about just what to do about Saturday, it being the day when Adam and Eve were created …
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Kickass and the Money Lenders
Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper in efforts to free the populace from enslavement by the money lenders, and cheers for the removal of lifetime financial shackles from young college grads. That it is impossible to own a house or a car without paying outrageous …
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Kickass and Wisconsin Governorship
Svgalbertian, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that political things build up for the keeper, and to avoid serious indigestion he must sort through the laxatives of truth: * Allowing an out-of-state billionaire who lives in East coast mansions to buy his way into the Wisconsin governor’s office …
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Kickass and Zip Line
Ryancampbellrpc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper’s efforts to have a zip-line installed from the Vista West facility where he and Phyllis live, across Gammon Road to Memorial High School. (It would have to be walker friendly, of course.) It is the keeper’s thinking that there are …
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Kickass and the Guest List
PeakDill, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper and Phyllis’s ’s most recent guest log entries: the keeper’s grandson Nick and great granddaughter Caroline with Caroline demonstrating her boundless gymnastic talent down in the Vista West exercise room; Phyllis’s son Todd and daughter Tyler and one of …
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Kickass and Don’t Let the Old Man In
Andreas Bohnenstengel, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s thought that it is always nice to be included in the start of a new week. As Clint—even older than the keeper, has it in the song Toby Keith wrote for him, “Look out your window and …
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Kickass and Two-Year-Old Party
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper frequently finds himself out of his league, and that was never more so than at great grandson Ziggy Russell’s two-year birthday party, when a bunch of cousins and little friends gathered to eat sweetcorn and “dirt” cake with Ziggy, and …
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