Photo by Vincent Guth on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on the keeper’s discovery that next Monday’s rare display of the aurora borealis, which will be visible as far south as Wisconsin and New York, will include colorful indicators of the truth, heretofore denied to vast numbers of the populace who believe that if …
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Kickass and Fall Writing
Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that during the keeper’s long journalistic efforts to stay out of the city room and thus avoid editors and honest labor, he came up with a number of writing schemes built around seasons—“Spring up the Mississippi,” “Around Lake Michigan in …
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The Best Laid Plans
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter After a long hot week in the city, my wife and I took a trip up to our place in the great Northwoods, a family cottage that we’ve owned for over fifty years. The original cabin was a tiny summer cottage with no basement, heat (except a tiny …
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Kickass Remembers Labor and John
Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper yet again in sorting through Labor Day memories of how the keeper’s old fishing pal John Lawton routinely put an early end to magical Wolf River trout weekends by returning to Madison’s Labor Temple to give a holiday speech …
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Kickass and the Jerk Dentist
Ka-ho Chu uploaded by R-E-AL (talk | contribs | Gallery) (German Wikipedia) Ka-ho Chu, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes on the keeper’s news of the failure of a Wisconsin trade with Minnesota in which Mindless My Pillow Mike would be exchanged for Painful “Jerk-‘em-out” Prehn, the Wausau dentist …
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Kickass and Dentist Demonstration
JackintheBox, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, naps as the keeper, suggests that the office and waiting room of Fred Prehn, the Wausau dentist who inflicts statewide pain by refusing to step down from his expired term on the DNR Board, be occupied by moaning and groaning citizens who …
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Kickass and the Dyke Road
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 and Phyllis have returned from their search of the Central Wisconsin potato fields and wildland for an appropriate site for a Mr. Potato Head monument; and are happy to be home after another …
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Kickass and a Call for Action
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in mounting an “insurrection” against the infuriating arrogance of the Wausau dentist and cranberry company owner who refuses to step down from his expired term on the DNR Board, thus keeping in place Walker DNR policies …
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Kickass and Evolutionary Top Spot
Pets Adviser from Brooklyn, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to sort through the keeper’s observation that if humans had not evolved as dominant, some other species might be setting human hunting quotas and deciding other human population control issues. Had wolves evolved to the top spot, …
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Kickass and Little Brother
Yellowstone National Park from Yellowstone NP, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is trying to help the keeper as he—the keeper, works through the role of older brother as his younger brother Orv and his wife Shirley make the transition from the home farm up in the northwestern …
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Kickass and Returning to the Sea
Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper along the Wisconsin River and other waterways on the brink of summer to plead for active acknowledgment that since the human species came crawling out of the sea, there is really only one way for it to return permanently …
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Kickass and Dumb Bear Hounders
Jim Bowen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper hates it when he must admit being wrong—as infrequently as it happens, but after naming the election of Ron Johnson and the temporary establishment of dog racing tracks as the dumbest things to happen in Wisconsin, he …
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