Attribution: Lorrie777, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in celebrating the 2023 first day of fall by joining others to do some book promo at the Waunakee Library, after which they will cruise the countryside for signs of the season while congratulating each other …
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Category:Wisconsin
Dialogues on Counting Cards: The Sheepshead Diaries
Attribution: Krenakarore, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter …at the risk of breaking my arm patting myself on my back—seems like my mom had these pithy expressions always at the ready—that one to check me when I was declaring …
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A Rock and a Hard Place
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Robin Vos is a dyed-in-the-wool deep-red Republican. He has done everything in his power to keep Wisconsin as red as it can be—by hook and by crook. He has made his name from ruthlessly seizing and consolidating power in the Wisconsin legislature. Since the Republican red wave of …
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Kickass Asks Some Questions
Attribution: Per A.J. Andersson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper as he tries to remain relevant when faced with such questions as the following: *Does Boebert’s statement that she will be checking party affiliations of future dates mean that it is hard to keep your …
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Dialogues on Tilting the Playing Field: Electile Dysfunction
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter A blood boiler below. For the 2nd time this week, the same Wisconsin potential impeachment of the newly elected State Supreme Court Justice—Janet Protasiewicz–has made the Times Headlines. Besides ‘splaining a new (to me) …
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Kickass Joins the Dumb
Attribution: Shakib khan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hears the keeper’s confession that he recently joined the “dumbest” parade by expressing his opinion of some of Wisconsin’s prevailing political gerrymandered dumbness. In assessing the way this puts the keeper right in there with the dumbest of the dumb, …
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Kickass and Wolf In Grandma Wisconsin’s Bed
Attribution: Jessie Willcox Smith (1863 – 1935), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in noting that it would not be fair to wolves to use them as symbols to represent the devious Vos Repub gang that has been occupying Grandma Wisconsin’s gerrymandered political bed …
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Unsportsmanlike Conduct
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Towering White Pines—monarchs of the North. Beautiful cold and crystal-clear lakes. Deep, dark, peaceful woods. Silent, gold-tinged, magenta clouds scattered across the skies at sunset. Wisps of fog rising from the water at dawn. Red-eyed loons rising from the cool depths. These are the Northwoods of Wisconsin, better …
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Kickass and Lifetime of Cars
Attribution: Patrick from Merrimack, NH, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s lifelong relationship with cars, beginning back when he talked his father into hooking up the horses and pulling home a Model T pickup that had been rusting away behind a neighbor’s shed. His …
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Kickass and Reprimanding Republicans
Attribution: Channel 3000, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis and their ilk, recognizing that they are living in a gerrymandered state litterbox of the Repub’s design that denies them representative government, hereby serve notice that if the Voss Repub dictator group moves ahead …
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Something Rotten in the State of Wisconsin
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Something doesn’t smell right in Wisconsin, and it hasn’t for a long time. Something’s gone sour—rotten, and the odor seems to be emanating from the State Capitol Building. It’s the smell of greed, corruption, and mendacity, and it stems from the insatiable lust for power displayed by the …
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Kickass and The Black Hawk War
Attribution: Billwhittaker at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has finally finished his bedtime book: “Blackhawk–The Battle for the Heart of America” by Kerry Trask, history prof emeritus at UW Manitowoc. The book is an incredible work and leaves him–the keeper uniquely conditioned …
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