Photo by Raphael Schaller on Unsplash By Dave S., Mark Mamerow, Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter To Mark, Dennis, and Geoff Remember that Sunday times column by William Safire? Well, the link below is all about the word woke…. thought for sure the author would indict Aaron Rodgers for his recent vacuous deployment of it. The New York Times: The War …
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Category:Politics
Kickass and First Snow
\Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the first swirling snowflakes of the season were immediately politicized when the Repubs said that they—the snowflakes, represented the Dems’ start of a six-month long snow job to sell snow, ice, freezing wind and blizzards as the charms …
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Kickass and Regurgitation
alleZSoyez, derivative mork of, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to challenge the keeper in his conclusion that the very natural process of regurgitation used by some birds and animals to feed their young, by bees to make honey and by cows to chew their cuds, is …
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Murder by Numbers
Artwork by Michael DiMilo We’ve watched statistics spill off television screens and scroll across newsfeeds each and every day—for months. Milestones have been acknowledged, marked, and noted. One hundred thousand Americans dead in May. One hundred and fifty thousand in July. Four hundred and five hundred thousand, then six hundred thousand. And yet we still …
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Kickass and Red Light Capitol
Anjaneyadas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s observation that from their new location, he and Phyllis have a distant nighttime view of the lighted Capital Dome showing it to be in the proximity of several blinking red lights. The obvious conclusion was too easy for …
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Sick and Tired
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter People are tired. Exhausted. They’re tired of COVID-19. They’re tired of masks and distancing and washing hands and being careful. They’re tired of other people not wearing masks—and screaming about it. They’re tired of schools closing and having their kids home all the time. They’re tired of not …
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Kickass as Predator
Photo by Sebastian Pociecha on Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, having retired as a shooting hunter, still acknowledges his predator identity and the complications that come with attempting to fit killing lesser creatures into the realm of “sport” and “fun” in a society that increasingly denies the source of hamburger. Regulatory decisions that should be made by ALL …
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Look Up in Anger
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last week, a New York City restaurant hostess was physically assaulted by guests when she informed them that masks were required to enter the restaurant. On a recent weekend flight from Philadelphia to Miami, a Frontier Airlines passenger had to be taped to his seat after assaulting one …
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Kickass Embraces Duelling
Illustrator not identified. From a painting by J. Mund., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, while sympathizing with the keeper’s frustration at the lack of ways for an elderly citizen to be politically relevant, is not sure that the keeper’s embrace of dueling is the answer. But in the …
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Kickass and Manchin and Prehn
Joe ManchinUnited States Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has reached the limits of his tolerance for the likes of Joe Manchin lecturing desperate kayakers from the back of his $700,000 yacht; and Fred Prehn, the Wausau tooth-jerker, who refuses to leave the DNR …
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Revenge of the Swamp Creatures
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter On January 20th, 2021, when Joseph Biden was formally inaugurated as our forty-sixth president, America—and the world—heaved a huge sigh of relief. Donald Trump, the man who had only two weeks before instigated an assault on the Capitol Building in an attempted coup d’etat, was finally removed from …
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Kickass and Borealis Truth
Photo by Vincent Guth on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on the keeper’s discovery that next Monday’s rare display of the aurora borealis, which will be visible as far south as Wisconsin and New York, will include colorful indicators of the truth, heretofore denied to vast numbers of the populace who believe that if …
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