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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Kickass and Quiet Piggy

Attribution: Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis have learned that under a “Quiet, Piggy!” executive order administered by Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi, “The Three Little Pigs” fairy tale has been scrubbed of the original account of the wolf’s …
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Enough is Enough

Attribution: Chad Davis., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter After the Proposition 50 referendum, in which voters resoundingly endorsed the California legislature’s plan to redistrict their voting districts in response to the Republican Party’s partisan gerrymandering of Texas, Governor Gavin Newsom said, “after poking the bear this bear roared.” (Instagram) Of course, the bear …
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Kickass and Evers Saying NO!

Attribution: SecretName101, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper and Phyllis’s nomination of Wisconsin governor Tony Ever’s for a Pulitzer for his response to the narcissistic POTUS demanding that state efforts to keep emergency food coming for those who need it be stopped immediately. In the Republican …
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Princes of Darkness

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We’ve survived another Halloween season, which, regrettably (to me at least), is becoming more and more of a Hallmark holiday. Increasingly elaborate costumes, extravagant home decorations, and a growing cornucopia of movies and limited series have inundated us for weeks—if not months, but the psychopathic killers, monsters, aliens, …
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Kickass and Statue of Liberty

Attribution: Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, understands the keeper’s dilemma in reviewing his experience of endangering the Statue of Liberty lest it is copied by the current Washington wrecking crew. As a typical tourist the keeper was on that very narrow circular stairs leading to the Lady’s …
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Kickass and Intercepted Message

Attribution: MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper mysteriously linked into the following e-mail exchange.             ICE field agent: “We took him into custody at the Statue of Liberty. He had a chain saw and a barn shovel and claimed to be the POTUS fresh from having …
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