Category:Social Commentary

Kickass and the Eclipse

Posted on April 8, 2024Updated on April 8, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Nature, Social Commentary

Attribution: Photo by Jongsun Lee on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper has prepared for the eclipse by practice napping and will be more than ready when the solar system shades are briefly pulled today. Contrary to the inane blather from MTG the brainless congressional scarecrow identifying the eclipse as a Divine …
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Kickass and Geordan’s Autism

Posted on April 7, 2024Updated on April 7, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, was a listener as the keeper and Phyllis entertained Phyllis’s son Kevin and grandson Geordan in one of those wonderful Saturday afternoon family conversations that knows no bounds and runs the gamut from the profound to the absurd with emphasis on the latter and …
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Kickass and Migration

Posted on March 27, 2024Updated on March 27, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Nature, Social Commentary

Attribution: Photo by James Wainscoat on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in proclaiming that he will not cross that bridge when he comes to it, especially if it leads into Baltimore, he will take that “road not taken” hoping it leads to somebody’s woods, and he will be “on the road again” …
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Kickass and the Bad Driver

Posted on March 15, 2024Updated on March 15, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Attribution: DaleHulm, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has a question for the driver on Mineral Point Road who apparently disagreed with the reasonable interval the keeper was maintaining with the driver ahead of him and roared around the keeper to cut in front and …
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Sanctuary

Posted on February 29, 2024Updated on February 29, 2024by Geoff CarterCategories:Books, Politics, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We live in an age of dazzling and astoundingly rapid advances in technology. Personal computers emerged only forty years ago, and smart phones only became widely available to consumers in the 2000s and early 2010s, yet these electronics have become indispensable for modern-day life. We depend on them …
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Dialogues on Grumpy Old Men: Get Off My White House Lawn!

Posted on February 25, 2024Updated on February 25, 2024by Mark MamerowCategories:Aging, Capitol Riot, Politics, Social Commentary

Attribution: Joe Biden: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (source: Joe Biden); User:TDKR Chicago 101 (clipping) Donald Trump: Shealah Craighead (source: White House) Сombination: krassotkin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, Last week’s biggest political …
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Kickass and Sunday Poem

Posted on February 25, 2024Updated on February 25, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Attribution: David Castor (dcastor), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, doesn’t always approve of the keeper’s poetry fits but he is powerless to stop them… THIS SUNDAY Today is the day, For praying to stay On the gods’ good side Or they’ll take you away. Faith for the believers, …
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Clown Shoes

Posted on February 22, 2024Updated on February 22, 2024by Geoff CarterCategories:Politics, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter He’s done it again. That Master of Marketing, the man who brought us Celebrity Apprentice, Trump Airlines, Trump University, ACN Communications, a series of failed casinos, his own line of urine tests, and of course, his name, his exclusive brand—his name, seen emblazoned in garish golden letters across …
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Add it Up: The Nature of Bidenomics

Posted on February 15, 2024Updated on February 15, 2024by Geoff CarterCategories:Economy, Politics, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In the film Silence of the Lambs, serial killer—and cannibal—Hannibal Lecter says, “Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing, ask what is it in itself? What is its nature?” (Silence of the Lambs). This advice helps FBI Agent Starling capture the notorious serial killer Buffalo Bill. If, like …
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Kickass and Gun Stupidity

Posted on February 15, 2024Updated on February 15, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Guns, Kickass, Social Commentary

Attribution: Photo by Jay Rembert on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in appreciating the fact that they were among those who made it through Valentine’s Day without being shot. Some 100 or more people did not, that being the average number of daily gunshot deaths in the US: 54% suicide, …
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Mighty Love

Posted on February 13, 2024Updated on February 13, 2024by Geoff CarterCategories:Holidays, Michael DiMilo, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo Originally Published 2/14/2022 By Geoff Carter In her novel Surfacing, Margaret Atwood wrote “The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them, there ought to be as many for love.” She‘s probably right, although what passes for love today might not be as important to us as snow …
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Can’t Buy Me Love

Posted on February 11, 2024Updated on February 11, 2024by Geoff CarterCategories:Holidays, Social Commentary

Attribution: Photo by Laura Ockel on Unsplash By Geoff Carter When I was in elementary school back in the early 1960s, St. Valentine’s Day was the day that brought life and color—and candy—to the gray slushy doldrums of grade-school winter. Everyone would attach manila envelopes with our little names block-printed on the front —our “mailboxes”—to the fronts of …
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