Attribution: Maarten Honnebier, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, proudly reports to the keeper and Phyllis that no dogs’ names are anywhere to be found in any of the Epstein garbage. The reason is not that no dog is or was powerful enough to qualify for inclusion in the …
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Kickass and Military on Main Street
Attribution: Tech. Sgt. Andrew Enriquez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper wonders about the thought process individual military members must go through when they are ordered to duty against their fellow Americans? It is one thing to be sent off to a foreign country to …
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Working Class Blues
Illustrated by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We marched in the Labor Day parade yesterday. I fell in with my old union, the MTEA, as we lined up with firefighters, machinists, ironworkers, electricians, plumbers, and hospitality workers. Thousands participated. It can be argued that what truly made America great was not the rugged individualism embodied by …
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Kickass and Workers Over Billionaires
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis and several hundred enthusiastic sign carriers, bell-ringing alderwoman Joanne Pritchett, the singing “Raging Grannies” and a multitude of “Silver Badgers” in wheelchairs, with walkers and using canes at the intersection of Tree Lane and Gammon Road Monday to wave …
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Kickass and Badass Badger
Attribution: USFWS Mountain-Prairie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports receiving a message from Badass Badger who provides security for the keeper and Phyllis from his post on their 5th floor Vista West balcony. That message, when its language was cleaned up for public consumption, was: “On this Wisconsin Badger …
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Election Theft
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Since day one of the second Trump presidency, our nation has been rocked by one of the most outrageous power grabs in American history. On his first day in office, the president issued a raft of executive orders slashing federal funding, shutting down entire departments, approving DOGE invasions …
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Kickass and ICE Confrontation
Attribution: Ratel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in consultation with his new partner Bad Ass Badger, informs the keeper and Phyllis that the recommended response to confrontation by a ICE agent is to ask the masked agent if his or her mother knows what they are up to …
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Kickass and Badass Badger
Attribution: Free Public Domain Illustrations by rawpixel, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, along with the keeper and Phyllis proudly announce their association with “Bad Ass Badger.” The story of “Bad Ass Badger” has its beginning when he was denied membership in the Silver Badgers, a Madison west-side group …
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Founding Fathers, Lost Sons
Attribution: John Trumbull, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter About a month ago, my brother, a historian himself, gave me a copy of Rick Atkinson’s The British are Coming, the first volume in his American Revolution trilogy. Mr. Atkinson is a renowned historian, having penned another series, The Liberation Trilogy, about the Allied Victory in …
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Kickass and Numbers
Attribution: Lara Robinson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, using only those numbers approved for use by the current Washington cult-that-couldn’t-shoot-straight, changes his official birthdate from 9/11/31 to TBM which translates to “TRILLIONS/BILLIONS/ MILLIONS” the language most often used by the clueless cult crowd as …
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Project 2005
Attribution: Win Henderson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Recently, my wife and I have taken to going over to my mom’s place and watching TV with her. We watched—and she loved—the harrowing Zone of Interest, the fascinating Queen’s Gambit, and even some episodes of The Sopranos. She didn’t care much for Janet Planet or Ted Lasso, but that’s …
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Chinese Finger Trap
Attribution: carol, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Let’s try a reality check: These are only a few—the greatest hits—of the latest conspiracy theories. Of course, we have the golden oldies like the earth is flat, contrails are poisoning people, Area 51 was an alien landing site being concealed by the government, and …
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