Attribution: Scum on Lake near Palm House, Kew Gardens, London by Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper considers the aspiring POTUS Repub candidates comparable to the line waiting in front of a port-a-potty at the country fair—their need is not for relief but for …
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They All Fall Down
Artwork by Michael DiMIlo By Geoff Carter The dominoes are beginning to fall. Who will be next? Nineteen people were indicted in the Fani Willis RICO case against those conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. And, as we’ve seen so often in TV police dramas like Law and Order, Breaking Bad, or The Wire, prosecutors are …
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Kickass and No Speaker of the House
Attribution: C-SPAN, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aware of the keeper’s irresistible compulsion to do good, passes along a few reassuring remarks concerning the Repub’s inability to find a speaker of the house who believes in the house and the democracy it represents: *Think of the dilemma in …
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Kickass and Squeaker of the House
Photo by Joshua J. Cotten on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the following real-life drama: SCENE: Front stoop of average home. Doorbell rings. Home-owner answers to find a mouse on the front step. HOMEOWNER: “What can I do for you?” MOUSE: “I hear you need a squeaker of the house.” HOMEOWNER: “That would be …
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Kickass Builds an Ark
Attribution: Simon de Myle , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aware of the keeper’s frequent misguided missions, has some doubt about his current project of building an ark as being the only possible solution to world circumstances. While it is only in the planning stage, the keeper would use …
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The Brat Pack
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter When the toy store Toys “R” Us was still around, I popped into one nearby on a Saturday afternoon to look for a present for a nephew, who was about to celebrate his ninth birthday. I went by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle stuff, the Nintendo stuff, and …
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Kickass and House on the Bus
Attribution: 3atbulletz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, accepts the keeper’s image of the House of Reps as passengers on a runaway bus careening through switchbacks as it hurtles down the side of a steep mountain. “Who’s driving?” “Nobody.” “What about the orange man, wasn’t he driving?” “He still …
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Kickass Interviews Gerry Mander
Artwork: “Money Badger” by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in incredulity that no member of the press has interviewed GerryMander, considering that after he was put in place by big money, places like Wisconsin became brothels for narcissistic “Johns” with perverted ideas about how to have their way …
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Kickass and Speaker of the House
Attribution: Utah Reps, PDM-owner, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is in such a state of high concern over the Repub’s inability to select a speaker of the house that he has been driven to barroom poetry: THE SPEAKER Me thinks that we will never see Speaker …
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Kickass and Canada Guests
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper joins Phyllis in a cooperative effort to shore up relationships between the US and Canada by hosting Phyllis’s sister and brother-in-law Joan and Bill Rewuski who live in Warman, Saskatchewan where Phyllis was born and raised. With the global inclination …
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The Nature of Teflon
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter There was always that guy in high school who got away with everything—a Ferris Buehler. We all knew him. Maybe he was a smooth talker, a star athlete, the class president, or the valedictorian. Maybe he had that air of innocence and was the last one anyone would …
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Kickass and War Worry
Attribution: Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper simply does not have worry room for the latest war, and the participants will have to conduct it in all of its stupidity without him. One war at a time is about all he can handle in the …
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