Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter The second Trump presidency has been an unnatural disaster—as damaging as a Category 5 hurricane. And like a hurricane, this administration has wrought extensive and irreparable damage, damage to our government, our people, and our country—and to the people of the world who have depended on American aid. …
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Category:Social Commentary
Kickass and Eating Out
Attribution: JIP, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper had another one of those challenging dining experiences when Phyllis, a health-oriented dining adventurer, directed the two of them to an ethnic eatery where the keeper could not read or understand the expansive menu, found it impossible to …
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Happy Independence Day from The Pen in Hand Blog
Attribution: National Portrait Gallery , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons May we see many more…
Kickass Stays in Bed
Attribution: Photo by S L on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, with the audacity to join the legions of Sunday morning advice givers, recommends going back to bed and pulling the covers over your head. The alternative would be to rise and shine in an absolute Land of Oz world where …
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Little Tin God
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter When I was growing up, back in the sixties, we used to play war all the time. We’d grab our plastic carbines, helmets, fatigues, and run around the backyard pretending to shoot each other. Amidst cries of “Got you” and “Did not” and “Only grazed me”, we became—in …
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Kickass and Captured Killer
Attribution: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis, along with everyone else in the Midwest, relieved at the capture of the Minnesota murderer from his hiding in a wooded area. And of course, it recalls for the keeper the long-ago murder of three …
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Kickass and Gently Used Analogies
Attribution: Willy Stöwer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be attending the keeper and Phyllis’s yard sale at which they will be offering the following unused writing analogies and other slightly used composition tools. *Waiting for the courts to solve the current political outrage is like being on …
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Dead to Me
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Republicans have not had very good luck talking to their constituents lately. Senators and House Representatives have been shouted down or booed at town hall meetings, mostly because of their refusal to challenge President Trump’s attack on everything from the Veterans Administration to the Department of Education to …
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Kickass and Posse Comitatus
Attribution: The National Guard, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, allows the keeper the useless remembering of his reporter days when he was on the hit list of the Posse Comitatus at a couple of locations. One was a road where he was warned never to drive if he …
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Kickass at the Winery with Trumper
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis at Bailey’s Winery in the beautiful New Glarus hills sharing the music, the scenery, the wine and food and a table with Jeff and Dena from Idaho who are in the state for Dena’s traveling medical work. It was …
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Kickass and DOGE Fights
Attribution: – Credit to Gopal Aggarwal with link http://gopal1035.blogspot.com (thanks!), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, under the mistaken impression that “DOGE” was “Dogs Out Going Everywhere,” mistakenly agreed to serve as the local DOGE enforcer at Vista West where the keeper and Phyllis reside, the primary DOGE duty being …
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Taco Taco Man
Attribution: Grok, prompted by @tRumpnado2016 on X, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter The Teflon is wearing thin. Donald Trump is no longer impervious to the slings and arrows of satirical barbs and jabs. Somehow his rudeness, crudeness, criminality, corruption, incompetence, arrogance, narcissism, and macho posturing have gone largely uncriticized (or at least …
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