Attribution: Photo by Kyra Kleijnen on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis adjusting to the slowly lengthening days by limiting their exposure to political tinged fast-talk and tuning in to gentle music accompanied by images of peaceful scenery. Prior to making the change the keeper frequently found himself gnawing on a …
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Dialogues on Midterm Blues: Polishing the Crystal Ball
Attribution: Photo by Elliott Stallion on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., Michael D., and Geoff Carter Bots, Read the following at your own risk. This is inside baseball on the government shutdown. Prolonged exposure may induce MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over). There was discussion a couple months ago …
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Kickass and Press Briefing
Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper hearing about the search for a Journalist willing to attend a White House briefing and ask the POTUS “Donald, what the f… is wrong with you?” The thinking is that such a question would mark the end …
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Kickass and New Second Amendment
By Bill Stokes Illustration by Michael DiMilo Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper promoting some revision of the 2ndamendment as follows: “The right to BARE arms means you can wear t-shirts and has nothing to do with guns. The fact of more guns than people in this country is due to a Constitutional spelling …
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Kickass and Dog in the Manger
Attribution: Harrison Weir, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting the keeper and Phyllis’s confusion with some of the seasonal stories now circulating, some using a “manger” setting, suggest that “dog in the manger” is a more appropriate theme this year than baby Jesus “asleep in the hay.” Defined …
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Kickass and Illegal Order
Attribution: Hillebrand Steve, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, after getting Phyllis’s approval, is seeking reactivation of his military status so he can see what happens when he refuses to obey an unlawful military order to help murder men in …
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Kickass and Day of Infamy
Attribution: Photographer: UnknownUnknown Retouched by: Mmxx, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis on this “day that will live in infamy” to suggest that the country is under a sneak attack that is more debilitating than any Pearl Harbor, and the defense against it has …
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Kickass and Girls’ Ride Home
Attribution: Photo by A n v e s h on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper identifying with FBI director Kash Patel on the possible fallout of giving girlfriends a ride home. When it happened to the keeper, that fallout literally turned his life around. He was doing the chivalrous task of giving …
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Kickass and Blowing Boats
Attribuiton: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Adrian White, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listens with one ear as the keeper mumbles about being descended from immigrants who stomped across the country using greed and indifference to brutally destroy the native culture and its harmonious …
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Problem Child
Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter I was a high school teacher for thirty-four years before I entered the blissful ranks of the retired. Most of my time as an instructor was spent in Home and Hospital, a program designed to provide instruction for students too gravely ill to attend school. …
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Revolution Redux
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter There have been instances when the sometimes all-too-thin lines between art and reality have intersected, crossed, and become blurred. The China Syndrome, a film about safety violations at a nuclear power plant, was released only twelve days before the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Wag the …
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Kickass and Pardoning Ceremony
Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the following: TWO TURKEYS TALKING: 1ST turkey, “So you were at the White House pardoning ceremony then?” 2nd turkey, “Yes, and it was even more of a fiasco than usual.” 1st turkey, “How so?” 2nd turkey, “The POTUS got confused and announced …
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