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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Category:War
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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Kickass and Shelling Grandma
Dsns.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has been asked by the keeper to come up with something comparable in the animal world to the shelling of innocent civilians in the ongoing Putin-Ukraine travesty. The keeper draws a blank. In the cause of narcissistic territorial ambitions, the human race …
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Dialogues from Word World: Letters from the Friendly Skies
Official U.S. Navy Page, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Mark O., Dave S., Paul Carter, Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Fellow Bots, I visited the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) festival in Oshkosh last weekend. I have a few observations to share. But first, I have to relate that my teeth …
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Kickass and Children of War
https://mva.gov.ua/, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in welcoming great-grandchildren into their respective clans; and they watch images of the sweet babies, as the incredibly tragic world news carries items of the maiming and slaughter of Ukraine children. The keeper is reminded of some …
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The Good Fight
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter As awful and unfortunate as the last two years have been—a time that included the Covid epidemic and its economic fallout, the 2020 presidential election and the subsequent January 6th insurrection, and the George Floyd murder and BLM activism—the war in Ukraine is beyond horrible. In some ways, the …
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Kickass and Evolution of Putin
DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, fresh from having a needle poked into his eye as a sight preservation measure, marvels at the medical world’s discovery of such treatment; but his astonishment takes a back seat to the euphoria produced by the likes of …
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Kickass and Moral Posting
BakeNecko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, informs the keeper that his—the keeper’s seeming ability to ignore the slaughter and suffering of millions of his planetary partners while producing lighthearted commentary about his personal ride on the big ball, does not speak to indifference, but to a coping …
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Peace Corps 2.0
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter As the world watched horrified—once again—one sovereign nation invaded another without provocation, slaughtering thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands of innocent civilians, as we stood by helplessly, unable to stop the bloodshed without getting enmeshed in the carnage ourselves. No one—except maybe Russia—wants World War III. Civilized nations …
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Kickass and Stokes Name
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is once again lamenting the close association of his name with the villain of the day as in “Putin Stokes Russian Memories,” which was a recent NYT headline on a story about Putin spreading propaganda lies to cause …
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Kickass and War Helplessness
Kyiv City State Administration, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation that it is impossible to imagine what it is like when an artillery shell lands in your living quarters and kills members of your family. Likewise, even for the keeper’s fellow residents of Vista West, most …
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