Kickass and the Weather

Attribution: freddie marriage fredmarriage, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper being suddenly put in charge of the weather by Phyllis and her fellow Silver Badgers as they join the multitudes of “No Kings” protestors this afternoon along Gammon Road at Tree Lane. Defying the old adage that …
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Kickass and Workers Over Billionaires

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis and several hundred enthusiastic sign carriers, bell-ringing alderwoman Joanne Pritchett, the singing “Raging Grannies” and a multitude of “Silver Badgers” in wheelchairs, with walkers and using canes at the intersection of Tree Lane and Gammon Road Monday to wave …
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Kickass and Badass Badger

Attribution: Free Public Domain Illustrations by rawpixel, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, along with the keeper and Phyllis proudly announce their association with “Bad Ass Badger.” The story of “Bad Ass Badger” has its beginning when he was denied membership in the Silver Badgers, a Madison west-side group …
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Kickass and Good Trouble

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, congratulates Phyllis, the committee, and the several hundred people who showed up Thursday afternoon at Gammon Road and Tree Lane to send a “good trouble” message that “they are not willing to abide a leader who treats them as inconvenient garbage”. Passing that “good …
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Kickass and Political Signs

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper sat in on a planning meeting of Phyllis’s “Protection Rally” group as it discussed where to direct its very successful efforts that created an alternate, more accessible opportunity to participate in the national outrage over—among other things, various forms of …
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