Attribution: Dsns.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper and Phyllis can do nothing about their membership in the “US Military Industrial Complex” except pay their dues and complain about the annoying roar of F-35s sharpening the spears of war out at Truax. Want to go …
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Category:Politics
Stemming the Tide
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter The beat goes on. And on. It just won’t stop. Like the relentless pounding of a jackhammer or the thumping of an overdriven car speaker, the deranged agenda of the Trump administration and its Project 2025 adherents will just… not… stop. For a while, it seemed as if …
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Kickass and Canada Relations
The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes
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Kickass and Santa Eavesdrop
Attribution: Douglas Rahden, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper tuning in his special communication skills to eavesdrop on a conversation from the North Pole: Santa: “Do we have any limits on the number of dolls we can deliver to one little girl?” Elf No. 1: “No Sir. It …
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Kickass and Demonstrators
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper lending a hand as Phyllis and her Vista West cohorts join the May Day crowd of “IMPEACH-CONVICT-REMOVE” demonstrators across the country. Fresh from a previous practice session earlier at the Capitol there was a serious sign making endeavor—Phyllis’s sign reads “I’M …
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Glimmers of Hope
Attribution: Stiller Beobachter from Ansbach, Germany, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter “I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” –Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Admiral Yamamoto said this after the Japanese sneak attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor—the strike he himself had planned. The …
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Kickass and Phyllis Demonstration
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper assists Phyllis in celebrating the liberal victory in her Canadian birth country, which speaks to the bald buffoon POTUS’s recent boast that he “runs the country and the world.” “Right into the ground, Baldy. Right into the ground! Meanwhile, back …
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Kickass and Correspondents’ Dinner
Attribution: The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Having been permanently identified by the current POTUS as “enemy of the people”, the White House Press Corps did away with the traditional appearance of a comedian at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, previously saying it was an effort to …
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Kickass and Joan and Bill
Attribution: Photo by Derek Otway on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in welcoming Phyllis’s sister Joan and her husband Bill as they visit from their home near Saskatoon, Canada. In speaking of their border crossing into the US, Joan and Bill said it was necessary to delete from their phones …
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Kickass and Trickle Down
Attribution: Photo: Graeme Main/MOD, OGL v1.0OGL v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as they become more familiar with the orange POTUS’s “trickle down” economic plan patterned after the dogs’ system of marking territory, the keeper and Phyllis try to live less like a fire hydrant or a tree …
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Wellness Check
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I spent last Saturday night in the emergency room, sitting with a family member who wasn’t in dire shape but still needed immediate treatment. Because it was a Saturday night, things were busy. There were probably about twenty people in various stages of distress waiting for care. A …
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Kickass and Old North Church
Attribution: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper and Phyllis joining in the 250thanniversary celebration of Paul Revere’s famous ride, and the keeper remembering when he traveled the country in doing a bicentennial series for the Milwaukee Journal and talked a young sexton into …
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