Famartin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the gray curtain of falling snow on a late January morning is as welcomed by the keeper as would be a flood of frigid winter sunshine. The slowly emerging muted day marks the beginning of yet another week when the …
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Kickass and Winter Car Starting
Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway) from Oslo, Norway, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper on another of his—the keeper’s, “good ol’ days” rants, this one comparing present day automatic remote car starters with such things as hand engine cranks and frozen boiled-out radiators and frozen oil …
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Kickass and Talking Snowflake
Kevin C Chen, CC BY-SA 2.0 TW, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in watching an occasional snowflake waft down from a cloudless sky as snowplow and sanding vehicles patrol the cold morning streets like giant predators. In doing an anthropomorphic cartwheel, the keeper gives voice to the slowing …
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Kickass and the Trek to School
John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is motivated by his daily view of the flow of students to the high school across the street to, once and for all, clear the record as to his own history of attending the country school up …
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Kickass and Snow as Daylight
Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, while adhering to “anything-goes” in personally adapting to truth, science and the second coming of JFK jr. down in Dallas, has evidence that the impending snowfall is simply stored daylight which is part of a …
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Kickass and Dog for Winter
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, waits now while the keeper wrestles with the remnants of stray evolutionary residue, some of which encourages migration as a Wisconsin winter survival move, and some that exerts a powerful signal to go to bed and stay there as in hibernation. With some experience …
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Kickass and Repub Survival Advice
Original: Mintguy / Fredrik Derivative work: Archenzo at Italian Wikipedia – User Romanm, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is doing his best to help the keeper survive the edicts of Republican leaders as they advise the citizenry on dealing with various threats: *Vos, Johnson, Tiffany, and other deep …
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More Than Rain
Kristian Pikner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Southeastern Wisconsin had a relatively quiet and dry summer—up until last week. On Saturday, torrential downpours dumped up to four inches of rain in some areas, causing flash floods. Then, on Tuesday evening, a strong line of severe thunderstorms crossed into the area, ushering in …
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Kickass and Friday the 13th Weather Forecast
Photo by Mary Gorski By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in bringing weather forecasting into the current century and offers the following Friday the 13th example: *Temperatures and tempers will remain at dangerously high levels as the jet scream of ignorance continues to dominate across the nation. *A severe pillow fight …
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Kickass and “Weather Through Filibuster”
Ralf Roletschek (GFDL 1.2 or FAL), via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in deciphering a Repub-designed program to deal with rotten weather over the Memorial Day weekend. Called “Weather Through Filibuster” or WTF for short, the program is based on the Repub held contention that warm sunshine is the …
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Left Out in the Cold
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoffrey Carter A polar vortex descended upon the lower United States last week, bringing freezing temperatures across the South. While the entire region had to deal with shoveling snow, cold temperatures, and relearning how to drive, the great state of Texas found itself in a full-blown crisis. The extreme cold …
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