Attribution: Illustration by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in celebrating the recent election results, particularly those in which women emerged victorious. As the keeper has written in his ready-to-be-published novel, the only hope for the planet’s survival is for women to totally take over from the …
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Category:Politics
Kickass and Depression Food
Attribution: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, in keeping with their previous plan to turn the calendar instead of the clock back to comply with the daylight savings time scheme, will see the keeper going back to the early 1930’s when …
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Eve of Destruction?
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last Saturday, two days after participating in our local rendition of the No Kings March, which drew over 15,000 people in Milwaukee, I—like most Americans—was appalled and disgusted to see a backhoe tearing down the East Wing of the White House the following Monday morning. It was as …
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Kickass and Killing Walleye Fishermen
Attribution: Ted Rozumalski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper in recognizing the popularity of Wisconsin people riding around in small boats; and the apparent enjoyment the demented Trump dynasty gets by using drone weaponry to blow such boats out of the water, killing all aboard …
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Kickass and Vaccinations
Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having recovered from the mild discomfort of Flu and Shingles vaccinations, and awaiting the Covid shot, would like to pass the word on to RFK Jr. that getting the immunizations as recommended by the best medical knowledge …
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Kickass and Statue of Liberty
Attribution: Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, understands the keeper’s dilemma in reviewing his experience of endangering the Statue of Liberty lest it is copied by the current Washington wrecking crew. As a typical tourist the keeper was on that very narrow circular stairs leading to the Lady’s …
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Who Cares?
Attribution: Chad Davis., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Last Saturday, the nationwide No Kings rally, composed of over 2600 separate demonstrations spread across all fifty states, took place. Over seven million people showed up to protest the Trump administration. Massive demonstrations in Boston, Chicago, New York City, and other major cities topped …
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Hitting Home
Attribution: Paul Goyette from Chicago, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter After America somehow reelected a man who fomented a rebellion in an attempt to overturn the government, the last nine months have seemed unreal, like some sort of nightmare—an incessantly recurring nightmare. Terrible things are happening. Innocent American citizens are being …
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American Diamond
Attribution: Photo by Jimmy Conover on Unsplash By Geoff Carter Once upon a time, baseball was America’s pastime, but the sport’s popularity has waned. It’s not as violent as football or as exciting as basketball or as fast as hockey. It’s a sport that takes its time (even with the pitch clock) but one in which, in a …
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Dialogues on Political Dissent: Armed and Dangerous
Illustration by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., Michael D., and Geoff Carter Bots, Some thoughts on the Kirk assassination. There has clearly been an uptick in political violence in the last few years, and the perpetrators follow the typical American pattern. They are men, …
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Kickass and New Calendar
Attribution: The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper and Phyllis’s explanation for the prevailing summer-in-October: it obviously is the result of “Only I can fix it, Trump” redoing the calendar to eliminate Christmas as being overstaffed, symbolized by a jolly fat …
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Kickass and Milking Cows
Attribution: StanCoFair, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper extends his and Phyllis’s unfailing efforts to be helpful to those ICE cowboys who are now rounding up the immigrant farm hands who milk the Wisconsin cows. Well, WHOA, all you masked rearrangers, doesn’t anybody among your deep …
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