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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Category:Politics
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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Dialogues on the Elephant Graveyard: Letters to the Wisconsin GOP
Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter VIGNA christian, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Couldn’t help but think: Earlier this week, some “super smart” liberal cyclists I know…said they might vote Republican yesterday, in hopes of getting the candidate for governor–least likely to beat Evers elected …
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Kickass and the Money Lenders
Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper in efforts to free the populace from enslavement by the money lenders, and cheers for the removal of lifetime financial shackles from young college grads. That it is impossible to own a house or a car without paying outrageous …
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Kickass and Wisconsin Governorship
Svgalbertian, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that political things build up for the keeper, and to avoid serious indigestion he must sort through the laxatives of truth: * Allowing an out-of-state billionaire who lives in East coast mansions to buy his way into the Wisconsin governor’s office …
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