BakeNecko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark Mamerow, Dave. S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Bots, The EU and the US have frozen the assets of the Russian Central Bank, and this – along with numerous corporate sanctions – is tanking the ruble. The US is cutting off Russian …
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Category:War
Kickass and Woman War Screams
Julien Bryan , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper’s lament that when it comes to the slaughter of women and children, war is messier than school shootings since it splinters up so much real estate. Both, however, require cultures that have permitted conditioning by the likes of …
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Kickass and Defending Mothers
Mvs.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will drive Phyllis to a covid testing site today as part of her preparation for a medical procedure, and it is but a short leap to imagine that he is driving her to pick up …
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Kickass and a Happy Birthday
Selena N. B. H. from Fayetteville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that today the keeper and Phyllis will host a birthday celebration for Phyllis’s grandson Geordan with a German menu favored by his father Kevin and mother Colleen. It will be a happy occasion, and the keeper will …
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This Aggression Will Not Stand, Man
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In the cult film classic, The Big Lebowski, the Dude, its laconic anti-hero, complains to the other Lebowski—the Big Lebowski, the rich one—that he, the Dude, has been robbed and beaten up by thugs who had mistook him for the other Lebowski. The Dude is neither rich nor powerful, …
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Kickass 3/1/22
ВО «Свобода», CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listens yet again as the keeper revisits his mile and one-half walk to the one-room country school with his sister Norma on the warm day in March when the towering snowbanks suddenly turned into flooding torrents, one of which swept across …
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Kickass and War Conditioning
Author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes “War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It’s hardly a civilized pursuit. It’s amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve peace.” –Walter Cronkite Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the …
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