Danny Howard from San Francisco, CA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, often charged with clarifying even simple issues for the keeper, was not on the job when the keeper erroneously marked “yes” on his absentee ballot to the two advisory questions regarding judges’ power in election issues …
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Category:Wisconsin
Kickass and Country/City Kids
Channel 3000, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s reading suggestion–Kathy Cramer’s 2016 book “The Politics of Resentment,” as a means of understanding why the Wisconsin country kids hate the city kids to the extent that they deny truth and vote against their own interests. How …
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Kickass and Winterscat Glaciers
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper in pointing out that Wisconsin’s glaciation era has returned, as it does every winter, and there are now great dirty glaciers at the edges of parking areas and cul-de-sacs everywhere. These annual glaciers–known as “winterscat” to the scientific community, carry the …
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Kickass and Caesar’s Demise
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in doing his morning check to see if the State Capitol is still in place as a pimple on the far horizon, notes that on this ides of March day of 2023 it is indeed in place and briefly outlined …
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Kickass and No Turning Back
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, can attest to the fact that if the keeper were a dog he might have difficulty following the rules of “fetch.” It is the warning signs for “Road Closed” that have caused him the most trouble down through the years, but after many lessons …
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Kickass and Farewell to Tony Earl
Photo by Dawid Zawiła on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes with the keeper that the flag in front of Vista West and those elsewhere across the state are at half-mast today in honor of Tony Earl who died this week at the age of 86, leaving in the wake of his life more friends …
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Kickass and Migration Therapy
Photo by Geoff Carter on Birdfy by Netvue By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in doing something about the weather. The plan is to convert a nearby vacant child-care facility into a Migration Disaster Center to provide counseling for robins, cranes and other bird species that erroneously assumed that by Mardi …
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Kickass and Post-Larry Meiller Show
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, fresh from his stint on Larry Meiller’s WPR radio show to promote his book “Treeson: An APOLOGIA to Trees” now suspects that he might have spent his life working in the wrong communications medium, print as compared to radio. Had …
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Kickass and the Symphony
Photo by Samuel Sianipar on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis heard the Madison symphony and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor Sunday in the big room of the Overture Center through the courtesy of good friend Tom Humphry. They are not regular concert goers, at least not under the stylized symphony circumstances, …
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Kickass and Larry Meiller Show
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the info that the keeper will be on Larry Meiller’s WPR radio show Tuesday at 11 am to talk about his book “Treeson: an ALOLOGIA To Trees” that went to make the paper used to print the keeper’s 35 years of newspaper …
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Kickass and Deserted Dells
Jonas Dovydenas , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes with the keeper that now is the time to visit Wisconsin Dells, which he–the keeper and Phyllis did Sunday. It was largely a drive-through the water park area since the keeper’s idea of water fun is using water to make coffee. Their unobstructed walk …
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Kickass and Bear Hounding
Attribution: Wenzel Ignaz Brasch (1708-1761), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, goes along with the keeper on this coldest Wisconsin morning of the year to point out the dumbest circumstance prevailing in a state that was once a respected leader in conservation issues: narcissistic bear hunters, many from other …
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