Attribution: Hmcarreiro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, allows the keeper yet one more opportunity to use a personal experience to make a Labor Day related point: the occasion was when the keeper quit his student dish-washing job after the proprietor of a small Madison eatery chased the chef …
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Kickass Marks Labor Day
Attribution: Roadside Wildflowers, Droveway Lane by Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aware that the keeper and Phyllis descend from the laboring class, will honor them today with extra napping on this Labor Day Monday. He suggests the same for everyone. Since 1894, Labor Day has marked a …
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Kickass Kicks the Hornet’s Nest
Attribution: Lucio Eastman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, just gave the keeper a demonstration of what it means to “kick the hornet nest” as yesterday’s “Kickass” used an across-the-street shooting incident to comment on the sad state of cultural gun affairs. The sadness is in the tenacious hold of …
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Kickass and Gloria Steinem
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in honoring another great woman–Gloria Steinem who died earlier this week at 92 after a lifetime of helping lead her collective gender out of the male dominate historical weeds. Among the many things Gloria said was that there would …
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Kickass Goes Beyond Howling
Attribution: Henry Edward Knobel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, still working to teach the keeper how to howl effectively, tries to ignore the brutal truth that the required reaction to the POTUS narcissistic cruelty has progressed beyond howling to demand snarling, mad-dog attacks complete with abject resistance and …
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Kickass and the Log-Walk to School
Attribution: Joshua Mayer from Madison, WI, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper coming late to the competition for the toughest walk to school–uphill and into the wind both ways, amends his entry to include the log walk into time. This did not involve just …
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Kickass and the Cherry Trees
Attribution: Андрей Романенко, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in utilizing trees for territorial marking purposes, recognizes their importance in meaningful communication. It is therefore easy for him to understand just how upset the keeper and Phyllis are over the news of a hundred or so 60-year-old cherry trees …
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Kickass and Phyllis’s Dancing School
Photo provided by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper announces the tentative opening of the Phyllis School of Impromptu Dance and Acrobatics after her recent spectacular demonstration. It began as Phyllis was pivoting with a handful of books, whereupon she executed a partial reverse rotation, stepped off-balance past the …
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Kickass and the Body Camera Fiasco
Attribution: Photo by Junior REIS on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper ready with an explanation as to why such an enlightened city as Madison has yet to provide its police force with body cameras. The keeper has learned that it is all due to an early misunderstanding regarding the true function of …
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Kickass and the Has-Beens
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper did a little turn-back-the-clock number with the kind help of friends Ken and Joel with a lunch gathering of current “has-beens,” a group that has been in existence since before Pat Lucy left Wisconsin to become ambassador to Mexico. The …
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Kickass and Moon Over Mazo
Photo provided by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis, noting the recent Sturgeon Moon machinations, thank the keeper’s grandson Andy for sending along a photo by “Lindsey’s cousin” of the moon’s performance over the Mazomanie house the keeper and his family members built 25 years ago and …
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Kickass and Canadian Toilet Paper
Attribution: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that it was as inevitable as the sunrise that the keeper passed along critical information about the toilet paper issue, specifically how it might be influenced by what goes on between the US and Canada. Many Canadian trees are cut …
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