Attribution: By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper unable to resist a bit of revision of some of the classis from his and Phyllis’s childhood: “Old Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard not to get her poor dog a bone but because she couldn’t find her GD phone.” “Trumpty Dummy sat on …
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Category:Politics
Tariff Tantrum
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In a highly unusual occurrence in modern American politics, the Supreme Court of the United States made a ruling that President Trump did not like. Not at all. Like a nanny taking away a favorite toy from an extremely spoiled child, the justices removed Trump’s tariff powers, ruling …
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Kickass and Alien State of the Union Report
Attribution: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/303938034, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper having intercepted what is obviously a report from an alien observer of the State of the Union spectacle. “In yet another mystifying Earth ritual the leaders of the planet’s richest and allegedly one of the most advanced countries …
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Kickass and The State of Dog Walking
Attribution: Tony Alter from Newport News, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in doing something special to mark the reading of the “State of The Union” in the legislative chambers tonight. As suggested by Kickass himself, an arrangement will be made to treat …
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Kickass Remembers and FORGETS
Attribution: Illustration by DonkeyHotey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis and their crowd of “seniors” working with each other and the younger establishment in memory matters. Accepting the verity that almost at birth memory begins to do wacky things in the forgetting department—Where did …
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Kickass Goes to War
Attribution: DJ Mapping, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to help the keeper adjust to the POTUS plans to go to war with either Mexico or Canada, both countries obviously being highly questionable neighbors as seen in the incisive analysis of the Commander In THIEF. By way of …
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Tightening the Screws
Attribution: Chad Davis, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter I like to think of myself (perhaps generously) as something of a handyman. I’ve made a few repairs around the house. I’ve fixed leaky faucets, running toilets, and squeaky doors I’ve changed storm windows, tuned up our lawnmower, and preformed other sundry houselhold tasks. …
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Kickass Looks for Hope
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis and the entire US population in struggling to survive the incredibly cruel machinations of dim-witted thugs hired by the narcissistic POTUS to traumatize, manhandle and kill the citizens in their own communities. MONEY in the hands of power-mad phonies …
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Cracked Ice
Attribution: Paul Goyette from Chicago, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter There is a crime wave, an epidemic of violence that has erupted in the streets of our cities. Armed gangs are randomly accosting and brutalizing innocent citizens in Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and other cities. These masked thugs are ramming their victims’ …
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Kickass Divorces POTUS
Attribution: onaeg news agency, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is working with the keeper and Phyllis to draft a divorce petition from the POTUS, with custody of the kids going to their nearest Culvers restaurant. Where does it say—even in the comically convoluted law books, that the divorce …
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The Problem
Attribution: Photo by Andriy Miyusov on Unsplash By Geoff Carter Ronald Reagan once said, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem,” rearticulating the Republican dogma that governmental regulation inhibited American independence and freedom. He also stated, in his 1981 Inaugural Address, “It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to …
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Kickass and Minnesota National Guard
Attribution: Photo courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper went through Army basic training under a newly activated New Ulm, Minnesota National Guard unit in 1950 at Camp Rucker, Alabama. Close-order drill on the hot Alabama sand was shouted out by Corporal Dormier, and as the keeper …
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