Category:Social Commentary

Kickass and Human Rental

Posted on April 30, 2024Updated on April 30, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Attribution: LMU Library, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is attempting to curb the keeper’s enthusiasm for his adoption of the Denmark plan of renting a human to hear 30 minutes of their life story. The keeper sees the plan as a modification of his lifelong newspaper column writing …
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Contempt of Court

Posted on April 25, 2024Updated on April 26, 2024by Geoff CarterCategories:Capitol Riot, Michael DiMilo, Politics, Social Commentary

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter America has always been fascinated with our justice system (observing it that is, not being enmeshed in it). Our popular culture media machine has produced everything from TV lawyers like Perry Mason to Matlock to Jack McCoy to courtroom reality series like Judge Judy, Judge Mathis, Judge Hatchett, or Texas …
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The Winding Road

Posted on April 18, 2024Updated on April 18, 2024by Geoff CarterCategories:Culture, Memories, Social Commentary

Attribution: http://www.ForestWander.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter I happened to be running an errand in my old hometown, the village I grew up in the other day, and I barely recognized the place. My middle school was gone; they’d razed it. Most of the businesses, including Falls Music, Sergeant Pepper’s Record …
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Kickass and the Rapture

Posted on April 13, 2024Updated on April 13, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Religion, Social Commentary

Attribution: Jan Luyken , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, as curious as the keeper is in religious matters, was surprised to learn that the “Rapture” was a concept of evangelical men formulated sometime in the 1880’s, which may explain some of the “Rapture” no-shows as predicted by subsequent religious …
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Kickass and the Morning Start

Posted on April 11, 2024Updated on April 11, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Attribution: National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, along with the keeper and Phyllis, receives a reminder each morning of the miraculous process whereby everyone hurries to get where they are going and another day gets underway. The view of the Gammon Rd/Tree La. Intersection, …
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Kickass and National Library Week

Posted on April 10, 2024Updated on April 10, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Books, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Attribution: Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis and everyone else in pausing to honor the librarians on this special day. With grandson Bud Andrews a librarian in LaCrosse and with memories of his librarian mother in Barron where he grew up, the keeper has these …
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Kickass and Eclipse Glasses

Posted on April 9, 2024Updated on April 9, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Nature, Politics, Social Commentary

Attribution: Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be helping the keeper in his project to reclaim and repurpose all the now useless eclipse viewing glasses for viewing TV during the current political campaign. Like the warning about eye damage occurring from viewing the eclipse without the …
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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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