Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis in hosting the keeper’s granddaughter Sarah and Boo, the small schnauzer that once ruled the keeper’s Mazo house where she played her own piano, did an impressive routine of tricks and expressed a barking opinion on all things great …
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Kickass and Last POTUS
Attribution: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper as he tries to claim privilege by noting that given his age, odds are that the recently elected POTUS will be the last one the keeper experiences before his little pile of …
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Kickass and Eight-Year-Old Repeat
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Incredibly, Kickass gets the morning off by using a post from eight years ago exactly as it appeared then: Kickass, the doorstop dog, with his fathomless array of information sources recently hacked into an exchange between Russia and the Trump Camp.RUSS: We’re thinking of decriminalizing domestic abuse, do …
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Kickass and Billionaires
Attribution: StanCoFair, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on the keeper’s efforts to identify with the billionaires who recently bought the universe and reinstalled the formerly discredited Pluto at its center. In terms of relating to such things as Elon’s big space rocket exploding and falling into the …
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The Disappearing Man
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter As the 46th president, he guided our nation through one of the worst pandemics in history. He revitalized an economy paralyzed by broken supply lines and mass unemployment. He assisted American workers until they were able to get back on their feet and back to work after the extended …
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Kickass and Oligarch Kennels
Attribution: Maarten Honnebier, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, gives the keeper and Phyllis the morning off and files his personal report on activities at OLIGARCH KENNELS following the recent change in ownership from private to corporate. *Under the provisions of the “Citizen-Mutts Sold Out” act, OLIGARCH KENNELS will …
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Happy Martin Luther King Junior Day from The Pen in Hand Blog
Attribution: Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dreamweaver: The Legacy of David Lynch
Attribution: David_lynch.jpg: en:User:Urbankayaker derivative work: Gobonobo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter The world of cinema lost one of its giants recently. David Lynch, the visionary filmmaker who brought us disturbing and eclectic works ranging from the nightmarish Eraserhead to the beautifully lyrical The Elephant Man to the fever dream Mulholland Drive to the simmering evil of Blue Velvet and the …
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Kickass at Sarah’s Campfire
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper and Phyllis joining part of the clan at Becky and Beau’s in Mazomanie for a bonfire celebration put together by Sarah to ironically mark her imminent return to fiery California. The event featured a big pot of Mike’s chili, grilled cheese …
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The Fog of Truth
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Mark Zuckerberg, the kingpin of Facebook, joined the other subservient members of the royal court last week, bowing down to the new American despot, Donald Trump, while proclaiming that Facebook will no longer fact-check content on the popular social media page, opening the door (even wider) for any …
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Kickass and Lost Drive
Attribution: CAL FIRE_Official, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in assigning significance to various things as savage wars rage around the globe, the planet begins to burn up, narcissism dominates governments everywhere and it snows in Alabama. With all of this happening, the incident …
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Kickass and Fresh Snow
Attribution: –Stöhrfall (talk) 11:31, 6 May 2010 (UTC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog notes the keeper’s evolving lifetime reaction of waking up to a fresh snow cover: *Oh Boy! Let’s get out there and make snow angels and a snowman! *There will be a skating party somewhere tonight. …
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