Lacrossewi, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be assisting the keeper in drafting a contract for Tim Michels, the eastern billionaire who wants to add the Wisconsin gubernatorial mansion to his collection of mansions elsewhere, in effect making Wisconsin residents his property as in “plantation.” The keeper is suggesting that instead of an …
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Category:Politics
More or Less Equal Before the Law
Deval Kulshrestha, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons “We are a government of laws, not of men.” John Adams said that. “All men are created equal.” Thomas Jefferson said that—in The Declaration of Independence. Atticus Finch, in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, said “In this country, our courts are the great levelers.” These are all fine …
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Kickass and the Sheep Dip Treatment
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in observing that those who refuse to honor the will of the people by gerrymandering themselves into office or by denying the outcome of elections or refusing to abide by the expiration of appointed terms or by …
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Who Are These People?
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” These immortal words of President John F. Kennedy became the inspiration for tens of thousands of young Americans. To them, and many others, these words stood for selflessness, sacrifice, and a …
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Kickass and Funeral Pageantry
The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, using his superpowers of communication, has it on the kind of authority that is the base of Fox Fairy tales, that aides at Mar A Lago are pouring over tapes of the recent Queen funeral pageantry to …
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Kickass and Out-of-State Governor
Elkanah Tisdale (1771-1835) (often falsely attributed to Gilbert Stuart)[1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s ability to remain vigilant during trying times, has revealed to him the Tim Michael’s gubernatorial plan for deporting Madison liberals to Florida in exchange for demented Ron DeSantis followers who …
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Kickass and Pillow Talk
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports an occasion of pillow talk involving the keeper and his pillow, Phyllis being engrossed in reading a novel: Pillow: “I’m being requited by Mike Lindell.” Keeper: “To do what?” Pillow: “To promote the …
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The Queen is Dead
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last Thursday, at the ripe old age of ninety-six, after a reign of seventy years, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. The news of her passing has (in a gross understatement) dominated the news. She had been the queen since her coronation in 1952, the same year that The Jackie …
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Kickass and Presidential Portraits
United States Department of Justice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, acknowledges the keeper’s discovery that the reason the Obama official portraits were only recently unveiled at the White House is that they have just been found by DOJ among all the secret stuff strewn around Mar-a-lago. Just why …
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Kickass and Dumb Dog
Attribution: Phil Williams / Dog and duck By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has engaged the keeper in defending the verity that dogs witness people doing far more dumb things than the other way around, which made the dumb-dog incident at a recent river-side family gathering at Mike’s particularly noteworthy. As food, drink and frivolity were …
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End Game
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter This hasn’t been a good week for former President Donald J. Trump. The Department of Justice recently released the heavily redacted subpoena to search his Mar-a-Lago property, revealing that the former president had been illegally in possession of confidential government documents two years after the end of his …
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Kickass and Secret Documents
MarkBuckawicki, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that it is obvious that the DOJ is not going to be of any help to the keeper in disposing of the boxes of documents he has accumulated over a long writing career. Given current attention to that sort of thing, the keeper …
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