Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting that the keeper is more than familiar with the sons-out-of-control circumstance, adds that he is pretty much unable to assist in the latest problem whereby the keeper’s eldest son Larry very publicly celebrated a birthday marking him as old as the Pyramids. The …
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Kickass and Bird Photos
Photos by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper today in promoting him as a unique “minimalist” bird photographer with the shot of a hummingbird at the feeder which shows only the very tip of the hummingbird’s wing and requires that a viewer take the keeper’s word for it that …
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Kickass and Amish Cultivator
Attribution: Photo by Brad Weaver on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, naps in the first bright morning sunshine of July 2024 as the keeper tries to send a message to the Amish youth up in central Wisconsin who was riding that one-row corn cultivator behind a team of horses as the keeper and Phyllis passed …
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Kickass and the Chickens
Attribution: Kolforn (Wikimedia), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in stressing the importance of respect in trans-species relationships, even the one between humans and chickens. It is doubtful that chickens will ever work out the deal that dogs have, whereby humans take chickens for walks and …
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Kickass and Jimmy Fish Debate
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that while the keeper has not really participated in a presidential debate, he did at one point get into a gentlemanly discussion with a POTUS over who had caught the biggest trout while fishing in Yellowstone the previous year. It was on the …
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Kickass and the Debate
Attribution: Joe Biden: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (source: Joe Biden); User:TDKR Chicago 101 (clipping) Donald Trump: Shealah Craighead (source: White House) Сombination: krassotkin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has the feeling he and Phyllis spent last evening sitting in …
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Kickass and Travel Notes
Attribution: Yinan Chen, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop joins the keeper in offering a few random travel notes on a trip he and Phyllis made to Luca’s Wisconsin Rapids birthday party: *Wisconsin Rapids does have rapids, visible now–with the high water, from the Highway 54 bridge. *Remnants of Wisconsin’s …
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Kickass and Summer Bonding
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass the doorstop dog joins the keeper in noting that everyone bonds with the emerging summer in their own way. With Phyllis it is through her raised garden plot that has already produced little radishes and kale for adding to refreshing salads. In the keeper’s case, the summer …
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Kickass and Money in Politics
Attribution: Revised by Reworked, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in wondering how a democracy can possibly continue to function when $50 million donations are as much a part of the election scene as standing in line to vote? With unlimited donations welcomed into the political …
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Kickass and Two Day Shopping
Attribution: © European Union, 2024, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper as he continues to fall even farther behind in trying to adjust to the ever-changing, all-American preoccupation with shopping. The keeper’s resistance to shopping obviously has its origin in his very first solo experience …
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Kickass and The “Wombers”
Photo by Thom Milkovic on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, announces that the keeper appreciates Phyllis’s enthusiasm in joining him in celebrating the completion of a first draft of his 78,000 word novel—working title “The Wombers” which is plotted around the take-over of everything by women fed up with how it has been under male …
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Kickass and the SCOTUS
Attribution: Photo by Mr. Kjetil Ree., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, goes along with the keeper in accepting the verity that he—the keeper, has neither the patience nor the smarts to be a supreme court justice, given the “high” court’s apparent lengthy deliberation in deciding that a man …
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