Attribution: archivesnews, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the door stop dog, notes there are similar results in sniffing up those masked ICE guys with their disguises and hostility, and the scents given off by those with their street signs and chants protesting the emergence of Nazism to replace Democracy: They all have …
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Category:Social Commentary
Cornered
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter We’re in deep trouble and there doesn’t seem to be anything anybody can do about it. Our rights, our way of life, and our democracy are under attack from within. Armed soldiers are patrolling the streets of our greatest cities, U.S. citizens are being arrested, detained, and deported …
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Kickass and Evening News
Attribution: U.S. News & World Report photographer Thomas J. O’Halloran, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper watching the evening NBC news program of 8/26/25 when one of the lead stories was the engagement of Taylor and Travis the celebrity show biz-sports couple. The story went on …
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Kickass Relates to Water
Attribution: Video by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis spend considerable time and energy relating to the land areas of their past while giving the waters–creeks, lakes and rivers—only passing mention. Such was the case with a recent visit to the keeper’s boyhood haunts when water …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Magic Under the Stars
RoyBuchanan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:112_Drive-In.jpg By Geoff Carter (Originally published in May, 2023) Whenever I’m near my hometown, I go past the site of the old Starlite Drive-in, which they torn down a while ago. I still miss the sight of the titanic blue structure towering on the horizon, and always remember the …
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Election Theft
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Since day one of the second Trump presidency, our nation has been rocked by one of the most outrageous power grabs in American history. On his first day in office, the president issued a raft of executive orders slashing federal funding, shutting down entire departments, approving DOGE invasions …
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Kickass and Health Maintaining
Attribution: Photo by Laurynas Me on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis looking for a parallel to their constant efforts to keep up with their prescribed maintenance schedule and in the keeper’s case it would be akin to keeping a steam locomotive on the tracks and out of the way of …
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Kickass and Sunburn Excess
Attribution: Photo by Sachin Khadka on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noted the keeper taking his old skin to the VA dermatologist for its million-mile check up and learning that he continues to luck out from serious youthful abusive sunburns in which his skin peeled off in 8 by 10 sheets and rendered him painfully immobile …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Lost in the Library
Photo by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter In the present-day wonderland of streaming movies and videos available on dozens of cable channels like HBO or Apple TV, old television programs on retro TV stations like MeTV or Cozi, and platforms with huge libraries like Amazon Prime or the Criterion Channel, it seems as if every …
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Founding Fathers, Lost Sons
Attribution: John Trumbull, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter About a month ago, my brother, a historian himself, gave me a copy of Rick Atkinson’s The British are Coming, the first volume in his American Revolution trilogy. Mr. Atkinson is a renowned historian, having penned another series, The Liberation Trilogy, about the Allied Victory in …
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Kickass and Numbers
Attribution: Lara Robinson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, using only those numbers approved for use by the current Washington cult-that-couldn’t-shoot-straight, changes his official birthdate from 9/11/31 to TBM which translates to “TRILLIONS/BILLIONS/ MILLIONS” the language most often used by the clueless cult crowd as …
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Kickass and Hummingbird Visit
Atribution: Photo by Dulcey Lima on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the Keeper and Phyllis were welcomed to the day by the strident demands of a hummingbird checking out the balcony geranium and the empty hummingbird feeder and then banging on the glass door and shouting a profane laced lecture about cross-species responsibility and …
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