Attribution: Photo by Navy Medicine on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper ever anxious to recognize some benefit of war, particularly the one he participated in, wonders if his Korean duty, which was about taking the kinks out of the 38th parallel, might have some application with just how to get out of the …
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Kickass and First Day of Spring
Attribution: Thomas Wolf (Der Wolf im Wald), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in greeting this first day of SPRING—2026 and wondering if it is necessary to go beyond that simple observation for this Friday March 20 to just be one helluva great day! …
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Kickass and Media Billionaires
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having spent his “working” life gathering and disseminating information as an ink-stained wretch, appreciates the recent surfacing of a quote by either Einstein or Twain stating that when the billionaires finally control all the media, everyone else will be feeding …
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Kickass and New Wheels
Attribution: Photo by Mobio Marketing on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has a new set of wheels, and adjusting to them may require more than was demanded when his first wheels were pulled out from behind the neighbor’s machine shed in the form of a no-tires Model T Ford pickup that …
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Kickass and Remembering Up a Storm
Attribution: Photo by kim giseok on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis and everyone else in a post snowstorm St. Patrick’s Day full of bright sunshine and white snow covering everything green except the shadow of billionaires’ money. As is his fallback—not fall down—position the keeper goes back over the years …
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Kickass and the Birthday Snowstorm
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reveals that the keeper is responsible for the big storm having ordered it as a birthday present for Phyllis. His thinking was that having been born in Canada, Phyllis must like snow, so he ordered lots of it for her birthday which, being the …
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Kickass Waiting for the Snow
Photo by Russ Williams By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, once demonstrated his difficulty in waiting for something to happen, and perhaps his cloddish nature, by walking out of a live performance of “Waiting For Godot” the classic Beckett play in which two guys lounge about under a tree and talk about expecting Godot …
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Kickass and the Price of Gas
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, cautions the keeper about going so deep into his past that he mentions the price of gas at 5 gals for $1. Memory exercise of this kind tend to brand the keeper as either careless with the facts or performing for attention. His defense …
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Kickass and Phyllis’s Birthday
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hands off to the keeper on this Friday the 13th, 2025, when it is compulsory to talk about bad luck and the weather, there being a foot of snow forecast for Sunday. The keeper may amp up his preparations for March 16, it being …
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Kickass and the Richest People
Attribution: Photo by Mathieu Stern on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper, like all peasants is fascinated by the regular reports listing the richest people in the state, Wisconsin, the current tally showing Diane Hendricks of ABC Building, Judy Faulkner of EPIC and John Menard as top “richest.” It warms the keeper’s …
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Kickass and Johnny Appleseed
Attribution: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper impressed with a bit of research showing that Johnny Appleseed sometimes went barefoot in the snow, slept in the woods and once fell out of an apple tree and was caught by the neck between …
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Kickass and Volunteers
Attribution: Gabriel Vanslette, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that at the time his daily Kickass meandering is usually written, today the keeper will instead be on his way to the VA eye clinic for injections to treat the eye problems that dear old mom handed off to …
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