Photo by Ian Hutchinson on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper has some experience in participating in exits from foreign conflicts, having lost friends while helping take the kinks out of Korea’s 38th parallel 70 years ago. That the parallel has stood the test of time as a barrier against the spread of totalitarianism …
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Category:Politics
Lost in the Funhouse
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Why can’t we get off this merry-go-round? Despite the availability of safe and effective Covid19 vaccines, the nation is experiencing a new spike in cases—the worse since last winter—especially among children and young adults, in populations that refuse to get vaccinated. Despite seemingly overwhelming evidence that he sought …
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That Sinking Feeling
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Article by Geoff Carter “The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de La Mancha (Modern Library (Hardcover)) Shit floats. —Popular adage We’re treading water in a cesspool of information. Flooded with theories, …
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Kickass and Brain Exercise
TapTheForwardAssist, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis opted to pass up their daily exercise class Tuesday in favor of watching the four Capital cops testify at the legislative hearing for the Jan. 6 Capitol insanity. Just what this says about them—the keeper and …
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Kickass and Little Brother
Yellowstone National Park from Yellowstone NP, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is trying to help the keeper as he—the keeper, works through the role of older brother as his younger brother Orv and his wife Shirley make the transition from the home farm up in the northwestern …
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Kickass and Republican’s Covid Embrace
Lowenburg at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, attempts to help the keeper as he offers to assist the Repubs in their embrace of the Covid pandemic as a symbol of patriotism and independence. Led by the likes of the idiot Florida governor, the Repubs resistance to …
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Independence Day
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Article by Geoff Carter Our nation just celebrated The Fourth of July. Any American can—hopefully—tell you what this holiday is all about. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, severing all American ties with Great Britain. The founding fathers were sick of being taxed and …
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Kickass Takes a River Break
TheUnseen011101, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis will be taking their show on the road with a brief tour of Mississippi River environs in the Lacrosse area, with no more serious purpose than to check out the incredible Mayfly hatch, take a river …
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Kickass and the Minimum Dumbness Plan
Robin Vos Lehnmat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is trying to assist the keeper in formulating a “Minimum Dumbness Program” (MDP) whereby individuals are prevented by law from reaching a level of dumbness in which they think they are getting a fair shake in a government owned by …
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Kickass and Dumb Bear Hounders
Jim Bowen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper hates it when he must admit being wrong—as infrequently as it happens, but after naming the election of Ron Johnson and the temporary establishment of dog racing tracks as the dumbest things to happen in Wisconsin, he …
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Kickass and Dumb Dog Racing
Matt Schumitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in his efforts to catalog the utterly stupid things done by Wisconsin citizens, now claims that electing Ron Johnson to two terms as US senator now outranks the sheer dumbness of creating five very expensive and ridiculous dog-racing facilities back in …
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Kickass and Farm Tools
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with Phyllis as she contends with the keeper’s futile efforts to slow up the passage of time by surrounding himself with the artifacts of his past. Most recently it was a hand tool for shearing sheep, something the keeper remembers watching neighbors use to …
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