MuZemike, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is totally impressed with the restraint exhibited by the keeper’s species as the likes of Michael Gableman and Fred Prehn and Robin Vos do their taunting buffoon dances across the Wisconsin public squares largely unmolested by the citizenry. By comparable description, Trump’s …
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Category:Politics
American Self Portrait
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In the first episode of the HBO series The Newsroom, a college student asks news anchor Will McAvoy (played by Jeff Daniels) why America is the greatest country on Earth. Before absolutely emasculating her with a lengthy and provocative laundry list of deficiencies in our government, McAvoy tries to …
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Kickass and Football Excesses
Pbrown111 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, acknowledging the season of football excesses, assists the keeper in providing revised lyrics to some of the traditional Camp Randall songs: If you want to be a Badger—- “If you want to be a butthead, just come along with …
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Kickass and Outhouse Occupants
Photo by Robert Linder on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper in his efforts to adjust to the absurdity of “minority rule” whereby gerrymandered Republican narcissists have locked themselves in what might be considered—judging from odious emissions–the political/public outhouses, thus denying all kinds of relief to a desperate public. That earthy analogy reminds …
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The Good People of Texas
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter They say everything is bigger in Texas—the hats, the cars, the buildings, the population, the reputation—even the problems. This is the state that produced the larger-than-life personalities Willie Nelson, Matthew McConaughey, Larry McMurtry, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Buddy Holly—to name only a few. Texans have a lot to …
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Kickass and the National Mother
Photo by Pixabay from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in lamenting the fact that their great state of Wisconsin is being rapidly converted from a beautiful, enlightened, compassionate field of dreams into a septic system drain-field for the greedy, narcissistic rich. And apparently all the citizens can do is keep flushing the Republican-owned …
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Kickass in the Land of Odd
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, fresh from days of self-indulgence over a milestone birthday, wakes up to find himself traveling down a road in the Land of Odd in the company of odd characters seeking the following from the Wizard of Odd: McConnell—a conscience, McCarthy—honesty, …
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Kickass and Wisconsin News
Scochran4, CC BY 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, finding no restrictions against mixing fact and fiction, casts aside the journalistic demand for truth that prevailed during his long newspaper career, and offers the following Wisconsin news roundup: *Fred Prehn, the most painful dentist in Wisconsin, …
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Kickass Tells a Bar Room Story
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes on a story from the keeper: Johnson, Vos and Gableman walk into a bar, and the bartender asks for their order. Johnson requests an “old fashioned with muddled tax breaks for the rich.” Vos asks for “beer in a securely covered stein to …
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Kickass and Repub Survival Advice
Original: Mintguy / Fredrik Derivative work: Archenzo at Italian Wikipedia – User Romanm, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is doing his best to help the keeper survive the edicts of Republican leaders as they advise the citizenry on dealing with various threats: *Vos, Johnson, Tiffany, and other deep …
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Pulling Off the Band-Aid
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In chaotic news footage reminiscent of the (to say the least) undignified and disorganized American exit from Saigon in 1975, the U.S. military, diplomatic corps, and translators have been attempting to flee Afghanistan after the seemingly unexpected and lightning-fast Taliban military takeover of the Afghan government. Fearful for …
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Kickass and the Filibuster
Krotz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, demands the mic from the keeper and says that if all humans had individual filibusters in their physiological life, they would all die of extreme constipation as their essential systems shut down By a dog’s reasoning, the filibuster which can virtually eliminate …
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