Attribution: kevin higgins / Graveyard and golf course Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in skirting some area golf courses to entertain Phyllis’s visiting golfer brother-in-law Bill, did not push his-the keeper’s plan for converting tomb-stone covered cemeteries into golf courses in the interest of updating the …
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Kickass and Wine-Tasting Tea Parties
Lou Stejskal, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in observing that while the taverns, and their predominantly male occupants, have historically been the main places of both outrageousness and mayhem in the area of social imbibing, there has been a shift from taverns to wineries, with …
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Kickass and Moving to Canada
Lorie Shaull, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, wonders if the visit of Phyllis’s Canadian sister Joan and husband Bill has recruiting connotations: Are they trying to entice Phyllis back to her Saskatchewan birthplace to save her from the ravages of a collapsing, money-driven US government? If that is …
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Kickass and The RBAD System
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be helping the keeper develop the Repub Backward Alarm Device (RBAD) patterned after the reverse beepers on trucks and construction machines like those working on the school addition across the street from the keeper and Phyllis. The RBAD devices will be implanted by …
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Kickass and Life Expectancy
Max Roser, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, concedes that the keeper has qualified to be an authority on “life expectancy” simply by living a long time; and therefor has a right—the audacity– to seek expansion of “life expectations” beyond simply counting time but to also include acceptance of …
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Kickass and Wisconsin Absurdity Contest
Colorado State University Libraries , CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be assisting the keeper in reviving the Wisconsin absurdity competition, with first prize to be a free ticket to the 2022 Sauk City cow chip throwing festival scheduled for Sept 2. *Now in the otherwise peaceful north woods, …
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Kickass and Space Telescope
NASA and the European Space Agency., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s enthusiasm for initial use of the James Webb space telescope allowing us to see 4.6 billion years into the past, is moderated by our utter failure to see even one minute into the …
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Kickass and Facial Hair
Jorgenson, Nils C. (1858–1926), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s recent experience with facial hair ended with him shaving off his month-old beard and retaining only the mustache that he has lived with most of his life. While the beard was beginning to make him …
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Kickass and The Carters
National Archives and Records Administration , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass gets lazy and uses last year’s post, remembering his privileged moments with the Carters and wanting to be that young again! Kickass, the doorstop dog, says the keeper is undecided about just where to direct his attention: the space race between …
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Kickass and Black Earth Creek
Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that among the latest big-money-sponsored insults to life as the keeper’s crowd knows it, is a warning from the DNR that eating the trout out of Black Earth Creek comes with the risk of cancer, a lower birth rate and …
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Kickass and the Shooter
Photo by Joe on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, frequently has suggestions for the keeper in maintaining a degree of relevance in his daily ranting, but he comes up empty with the fact that Robert E. Crimo III came within several miles of the keeper and Phyllis’s residence following Crimo’s unconscionable AK …
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Kickass and Ignorance Day
Photo by Infrogmation, Mardi Gras morning, 1998, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is supportive of the keeper’s creation of “Ignorance Day” to be celebrated following “Independence Day,” when the masses beat themselves about the head with explosive sticks provided by narcissistic, money-driven dictators. “Ignorance Day” is yesterday and …
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