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 Korean Observation Post
Attribution: Photo by Ian Hutchinson on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper on this Memorial Day to remember the two platoon pals from Michigan who were up on the observation post when it took the direct hit that killed them. Days later on that same OP there was the artillery round that buried …
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Kickass and the Big Globe
Attribution: Wuselig, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has no clear understanding of just how to juggle indifference and caring as he and Phyllis share the planetary ride with those who cause widespread death, starvation and limitless misery in the name of power, ethnicity, skin …
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Dialogues on Crossing Decency’s Border: Refusing the Wretched Refuse
Attribution: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark O., Mark M., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter The Biden Administration is trying to shepherd through a Ukraine military aid package. By most accounts, this aid is critical in order to give Ukraine a fighting …
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Dialogues on a Tooth for a Tooth: Riding the Downward Spiral
Attribution: Kobi Gideon / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring The Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Mark O., Dave S., Dennis C., Paul C, and Geoff Carter “The Democratic Party’s years long unity behind President Biden is beginning to erode over his steadfast support of Israel in its escalating war with …
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Kickass and Veterans Day
Attribution: Archangel12, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s status as a veteran has always been a complication for him, on the one hand the recognition and reward it garners from a grateful public and on the other, marking the keeper as having been duped by …
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Dialogues on an Eye for an Eye: The Beat Goes On
Attribution: Ashvio, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter It does not minimize the barbarity and cruelty of the Hamas attack upon Israeli citizens to recognize that there is a chronic problem underlying the terrorist attack. Gaza originated as a …
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Kickass and War Worry
Attribution: Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper simply does not have worry room for the latest war, and the participants will have to conduct it in all of its stupidity without him. One war at a time is about all he can handle in the …
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Kickass and D-Day
Avi1111 dr. avishai teicher, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are among the Vista West residents who gather weekly for a “Happy Hour” event at which there is mild and usually light-hearted celebration of having survived another week. Yesterday–June 6, the group was …
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Kickass Resigns as a Human
Dsns.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to help the keeper with the dilemma of continuing to accept identity as a member of the species that has the intelligence to build the most powerful weapons of destruction imaginable and then using those weapons to kill innocents in …
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Kickass and Ducking the Bullet
John Warwick Brooke , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis tried to watch the latest movie version of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” but were put off by the movie maker’s skill in portraying the gore of ground combat; to the point that …
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Kickass and Veterans Day
Bjarki Sigursveinsson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting that Veterans Day is when the country pauses to briefly consider all those mostly young people that it has either hired or drafted to go off to kill the mostly young people–but sometimes inadvertently the woman and …
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