Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper fell asleep during the Correspondents’ Dinner program just as awards were given to the reporters who wrote about the Epstein/POTUS connection. This prompting the keeper to dream about efforts to remove the wolf from grandma’s bed and caused him to …
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Kickass and the National Bird
Attribution: Photo by Pete Godfrey on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting the keeper’s reference to an old Kickass post, advises the bald eagle that its days as the national bird are as much as over and it should look for a new job, perhaps in recycling. The historical item is from July 24, 2018 …
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Midterm Exams
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter A big test is coming up for America, a test that could determine the course of our democracy (or lack of it) for generations. The midterms. During the last election, we were gullible enough to be fooled twice (shame on us), and, as a result, we are now …
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The American Gestapo
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Minnesota Governor Tim Walz created a major controversy when he compared ICE agents in Minneapolis to the Gestapo. In a commencement address to the University of Minnesota Law School in May 2025, he said, “Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They’re in unmarked …
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Kickass Edits the Shooting Statement
Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper, in his fumbling attempt to organize political information to make it as useful as possible, revisits the file that begins with the quotation, “I could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and it …..” In his assertion that he is …
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Kickass Dissects the News
Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with Phyllis in her monumental task of untangling the keeper from the tech webs that ensnare him on what seems to be an hourly basis. Most recently, in an effort to pass along important “breaking news,” the keeper …
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Perspective
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter At times, it’s difficult to see what’s right under your nose, or to see change happening over time, like when you haven’t seen a niece or nephew for a few months and are amazed at how much they’ve grown or to see how much a beloved uncle has …
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Bad Sportsmanship
Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter The United States of America is approaching its semiquincentennial—its two hundred and fiftieth birthday. This is going to be quite the celebration—parts of it have already begun. The reflecting pool in Washington, D.C. has been inadvertently dyed a gangrenous shade of green—not on …
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Kickass and Mills in the Reflecting Pool
Attribution: SWinxy, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s connection with the beleaguered Washington reflection pool is remote and comes via the night of Oct. 4,1974 when Argentine stripper Fanne Foxe jumped out of Congressman Wilbur Mills’s limo and dove into the pool as an intoxicated Mills …
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False Imprisonment
Attribution: Paul Goyette from Chicago, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter We’re not supposed to be a country that imprisons innocent people. It states in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” and that “among these are Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness” and that it is the …
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Kickass and Tobacco Spitting
Attribution: University of Texas at Arlington Photograph Collection, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to be helpful as the keeper goes off on a Monday morning tangent and wonders where the tobacco industry located the spittoons at the POTUS birthday party on the White House trash dumping area? …
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Kickass and Display Letters
Attribution: Dclemens1971, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog is assisting the keeper and Phyllis with the international garage sale today as it offers the specialty item of 18 outdoor display letters with the following advertising: “For sale: 18 outdoor display letters. Lightly used in a bogus scheme to destroy …
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