Attribution: Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper with the following plans for Oct. 26, 2023. *The keeper will not be joining the “thoughts and prayers” parade regarding the Maine shooting as he is both “thinking” and “praying” impaired in such matters and has been …
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Category:Social Commentary
Kickass as a Stupefier
Attribution: Dr. Philip Bethge, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper in his distress over being genetically excluded from the migrators and the hibernators and classified as a “stupefier” as major seasonal changes are about to occur. Birds with brains the size of peas are fleeing …
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The Nature of Teflon
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter There was always that guy in high school who got away with everything—a Ferris Buehler. We all knew him. Maybe he was a smooth talker, a star athlete, the class president, or the valedictorian. Maybe he had that air of innocence and was the last one anyone would …
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Kickass Watches PBS
Attribution: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis in forsaking the MSNBC endless political haranguing for a series of PBS Wednesday night programs that were both reassuring and humbling: From unusual people enjoying nature to a portrait of the planet Earth in terms of …
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The Most Important Meal of the Day–or Year
Photo by Mary Gorski By Geoff Carter We’ve been residents of the Riverwest neighborhood in Milwaukee for the past thirty-two years. During that time, we’ve raised a child, seen neighbors move in and out, watched businesses change hands, followed local politics, and witnessed neighborhood groups rise and fall. All sorts of stuff has happened over …
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Kickass and Wisconsin Gerrymanders
Attribution: Elkanah Tisdale (1771-1835) (often falsely attributed to Gilbert Stuart)[1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in reminding the Wisconsin citizenry that the Vos-led gerrymanders, by blocking new members to the DNR board, are keeping in place such audacious regs as the one allowing summer training …
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Harvest of Friends
Artwork by Micheal DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last February, the historic first meeting of our Tomato Club commenced in the backroom of the Waterford Wine Company. Snow was on the ground, the temperature was below freezing, and spring was nowhere in sight, yet that didn’t stop us from bringing our seed catalogs, our ideas, our …
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Dialogues on Trans Continental: Taking a Hard Right
Attribution: Possibleuseful, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, We had a decent discussion on transgender controversies a while ago. Since then, the anti-trans movement has been ginned up to a fever pitch. This has mostly been expressed via a …
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Kickass and The Black Hawk War
Attribution: Billwhittaker at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has finally finished his bedtime book: “Blackhawk–The Battle for the Heart of America” by Kerry Trask, history prof emeritus at UW Manitowoc. The book is an incredible work and leaves him–the keeper uniquely conditioned …
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Kickass and Blue Moon
Attribution: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis in opting to ignore last night’s 2023 blue moon and wait for the one in 2037, when the keeper will be 106 and hopes to be less distracted in attending to the …
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Kickass Accepts Science
Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that when dogs gather to socialize and bark at things, there is general agreement that the “things” they bark at the most are seen as common threats. It is no different for humans when they gather to socialize and “bark” at perceived threats. …
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Contempt of Court
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.” –Senator Marsha Blackburn The rule of law. Everyone is equal before the law. The law is the …
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