Attribution: Paul, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the Balcony Sparrow was back, perched on the cold steel edge just below the thermometer that showed a new low temperature for the year. The two of them talked: Kickass: “Cold, huh!” BS: “Yeah, and a lot more to …
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Dialogues on Republican Power Sweeps: Burning Down the House
Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Mark O., Dave S., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter (Note: Since the writing(s) of this piece, Mr. McCarthy has been ousted from the speakership by members of his own party.) If you’ve followed the current government shutdown imbroglio, you’re aware …
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Kickass and Biting Dog
Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is with the keeper in seeing that amid the prevailing political circus, the issue of Commander, the Biden dog, biting Secret Service members has been overlooked as a logical solution in myriad problem areas. If ever a biting dog …
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Monkey in the Middle
Attribution: United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Mark Mamerow If you’ve followed the current government shutdown imbroglio, you’re aware that it is happening because the far right Freedom Caucus is blackmailing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The nihilistic, burn-it-all-down down faction of the House GOP has McCarthy in a bind. It’s unclear exactly what …
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Kickass and Game of Fetch
Attribution: Photo by Rob Fuller on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has engaged the keeper’s help in totally shutting down the game of “fetch” as played by dogs and people. As symbolic of activity so stupid as to compete with voters going to the polls in “big-money-bought elections, “fetch’s” success depends on a number of …
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A Rock and a Hard Place
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Robin Vos is a dyed-in-the-wool deep-red Republican. He has done everything in his power to keep Wisconsin as red as it can be—by hook and by crook. He has made his name from ruthlessly seizing and consolidating power in the Wisconsin legislature. Since the Republican red wave of …
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Kickass Asks Some Questions
Attribution: Per A.J. Andersson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper as he tries to remain relevant when faced with such questions as the following: *Does Boebert’s statement that she will be checking party affiliations of future dates mean that it is hard to keep your …
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Dialogues on Tilting the Playing Field: Electile Dysfunction
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter A blood boiler below. For the 2nd time this week, the same Wisconsin potential impeachment of the newly elected State Supreme Court Justice—Janet Protasiewicz–has made the Times Headlines. Besides ‘splaining a new (to me) …
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Kickass Joins the Dumb
Attribution: Shakib khan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hears the keeper’s confession that he recently joined the “dumbest” parade by expressing his opinion of some of Wisconsin’s prevailing political gerrymandered dumbness. In assessing the way this puts the keeper right in there with the dumbest of the dumb, …
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Kickass and Wolf In Grandma Wisconsin’s Bed
Attribution: Jessie Willcox Smith (1863 – 1935), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in noting that it would not be fair to wolves to use them as symbols to represent the devious Vos Repub gang that has been occupying Grandma Wisconsin’s gerrymandered political bed …
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Dialogues on Trans Continental: Taking a Hard Right
Attribution: Possibleuseful, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, We had a decent discussion on transgender controversies a while ago. Since then, the anti-trans movement has been ginned up to a fever pitch. This has mostly been expressed via a …
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Kickass and Reprimanding Republicans
Attribution: Channel 3000, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis and their ilk, recognizing that they are living in a gerrymandered state litterbox of the Repub’s design that denies them representative government, hereby serve notice that if the Voss Repub dictator group moves ahead …
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