Attribution: U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Gabrielle Spalding, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis and the multitudes on this Earth Day to salute its originator—Gaylord Nelson, and in the keeper’s case, to remember a few personal contacts with the classiest senator Wisconsin …
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Kickass and the Morning Maze
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper starts every morning looking out across the parking lot at the schools and the streets and the many distant buildings, and then marveling at how everybody gets where they need to be in such a fast-paced routine of sharing intersections and …
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Dialogues on Confusions of Grandeur: What Would Jesus Do?
Attribution: Artificial intelligence, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., Michael D., and Geoff Carter Have you guys seen this? According to multiple news sources, including “The New York Times”, Trump posted this grandiose AI generated image of his Christ-like self on “Truth …
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Kickass and the Hereafter
Attribution: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting that dogs have delegated their hereafter administering to humans and they are therefore all going to heaven—the dogs not the humans, the keeper, as he gets ever closer to the head of the big line, notes some …
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Peeling the Orange
Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Set aside his greed and his corruption. Set aside his complete contempt for the law and the Constitution. Set aside his callous disregard for human life and the suffering of millions—many of them children. Set aside his lust for power. Set aside his incompetence. Set …
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Kickass and Old Drivers
Attribution: Photo by Neda Vidakovic on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis winding up their long relationships with vehicles with a faithful Subaru that rests docilely in basement parking until there is a medical or supply need and the keeper assumes the driver’s seat with Phyllis occupying the “participating passenger position.” …
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Kickass and the Lumber Camps
Attribution: Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis with their lumber camp experiences and remnant exposure, are often awed in contemplating that dramatic brief time in history when brave—foolhardy, men—and a few women took to the big woods with hand tools to bring down the …
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Kickass Goes to Prom
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, consults with the keeper about just what to do about April being the prom month after Phyllis says she has no interest in going to the prom because it hurts her feet to dance, especially as an inept dancing keeper is likely to step …
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A Night at the Opera
Photo by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter Timothee Chalamet is wrong. And he’s right. During a CNN/Vanity Fair town hall with Matthew McConaughey, the young actor said, “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera, or, you know, things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive,’ even though no one cares about …
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Kickass and Being Somewhere
Attribution: Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in noting the many interesting places where people find themselves this morning—looping around the moon, routinely getting the kids to school and then yourself to work, running a mile on an old railroad bed, walking the dog, heading over …
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Kickass and Diversion Scheme
Attribution: Photo by FETHI BOUHAOUCHINE on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper, in his efforts to use diversion to help with deodorizing the Trump zoo stench, shares a boyhood memory of spending two days to buy BBs when the clerk at the Farmers’ Store apparently thought the kid standing by the peanut barrel …
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Breathe
Attribution: Photo by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter To say we are living in a tumultuous time is a bit of an understatement. While this may not be the very worst of times, it’s getting there. First of all, we live in one of the least equitable societies in our history, where according to the Congressional …
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