Attribution:Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper’s inclination to look at the bright side of things, was at first gratified by Sen. Ron Johnson’s contention that global warming is a good thing because fewer people in Wisconsin …
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Category:Politics
Kickass and Biden Being Too Young
Adam Schultz , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and those with concerns about Joe Biden’s age as he announces a run for reelection, not because he is too old, but because at 80 he may be too young. The keeper’s reasoning is based on his own …
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Kickass and Tucker as Dog
U.S. Air Force Photo by Josh Plueger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Military_dog_barking.JPG By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’ s observation that If Tucker Carlson were a dog and had been returned to the shelter for snarling and biting and barking at pizza deliverers, his adoption promo might include “Big, …
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Kickass and Tony Earl Memorial
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper’s assessment that the Memorial program for Tony Earl Sunday at Monona Terrace was a most fitting wrap for the Earth Day weekend, bringing together as it did multiple people who worked with Tony to accomplish meaningful things in the name …
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Kickass and News Perspective
NASA TV, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, interrupts his napping to assist the keeper in putting certain news items into relatable perspectives. The destructive blow-up of Elon Musk’s 33-engine, 394-foot-tall rocket ship, celebrated by Musk and his followers as a success, can be compared to someone in the …
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Kickass and Feinstein
Senate Democrats, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, having agreed to let the keeper into the “old dog” club, hereby extends the invitation to Dianne Feinstein, and reminds her that her days of chasing squirrels and dog-park dominance are over and she needs to take up serious napping. Physical …
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True Colors
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” –Plato “Despotic power is always accompanied by the corruption of morality.” –Lord Acton American politics has been devolving over the last decade or so. Discourse has become so gridlocked, it’s become nearly impossible for our two major …
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Dialogues on Red State Hubris: Southern Inhospitality
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter This just in from the R dominated volunteer state: “Southern man, better keep your headDon’t forget what your good book saidSouthern change gonna come at lastNow your crosses are burning fastSouthern man I saw …
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Dialogues on a Return to Sanity: Blue is the Warmest Color
Tony Patt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter ….Hail to the Victors…bl, bl, blah… First off: Apologies in advance for the volume lately. Below story is the sudden Democratic dominance in Michigan, a state I thought had swung hard right. …
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Dialogues on Corrupting Influences: My War Was Better than your War
(Special Feature from ChatGPT: “AI, AI, AI, Ohhh…”) Sgt. Felicya Adams, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, Ross Douhat, conservative columnist for the New York Times, asks the question in his most recent column: Was Iraq a Worse …
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Kickass and Cataracts
Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in celebrating the now commonplace cataract surgery as both his wife Phyllis and son Mike undergo the procedure. The keeper remembers an elderly relative undergoing an earlier version of cataract treatment that involved a much less effective …
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Dialogues on Pigs at the Trough: How Green was my Valley
Flying Logos, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Over_$1,000,000_dollars_in_USD_$100_bill_stacks.png Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Hey Bots, Same shit different day. Fortunately I really let ‘em have it. This should fix things once and for all. –Dave S. –Dave Ah yes, the cry of the …
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