Liz Sales, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has decided to defy the old saw that everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. His plan of “doing something,” has its base in the human capacity for enduring outright, wholesale stupidity as it …
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Category:Wisconsin
Kickass and Perfect Spring Day
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, wondered, with rest of the populace, what they did to deserve Mar. 20, 2022 with its first-day-of-spring perfection. In the warm hours of its sunny brilliance, there was an invitation to do something as participatory and extraneous as the …
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Kickass and Robin Vos
Jongsun Lee, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that once again it has fallen to the keeper to intercept some of the communications from unusual sources, most recently the petition from the robins, now flocking back into the state by the thousands from southern environs, which demands that …
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Kickass and Special Communication Powers
Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has lent his special communications powers to the keeper as he—the keeper intercepts messages from the Russian oligarch who is buying Wisconsin as a location for his “up-nort” retreat. Obviously heavily influenced by the recent “60-Minutes” portrayal of Wisconsin as helplessly under the control …
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Penny Dumb, Dollar Stupid
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In 1975, Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin presented his first Golden Fleece Award, a trophy recognizing individuals and government agencies for outstanding achievements in squandering taxpayer money. The award was, of course, tongue-in-cheek, but if the senator were around today (and not spinning in his grave) he would …
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Kickass and Ornery Silver
ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in this era of “to-mask-or-not-to-mask,” passes along the keeper’s account of a sad unmasking when he–the keeper was unmasked by the cruel passage of time as not the Lone Ranger but a skinny farm kid astride the world’s orneriest Shetland pony, …
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Kickass and Bird Photos
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has pretty much given up on assisting the keeper with his “bird” issues, including, of course, his place in the unstated sandhill crane photo competition that is ongoing as the big birds return to the state in droves. Prior to the most recent snow …
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Kickass and the Dead Beaver
Photo by Francesco Ungaro on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper in making something of his—the keeper’s memory of the March afternoon when most of the student body of the country school trudged across the deep melting snow of Becker’s woods to see the bloated body of the beaver that had been trapped …
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Kickass and the State of….
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, pauses with the keeper as he—the keeper, assesses “the state of stupidity” as manifested by the following examples: *The red dressed idiot woman narcissist who shouted insults as the POTUS spoke about losing his son to a …
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Dialogues in The Echo Chamber: Letters from the Unemployment Office
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots Mark Mamerow., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, February 6, 2022: ‘It’s not like we don’t have enough jobs here in Wisconsin’: Ron Johnson won’t try to land Oshkosh Corp. …
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Kickass and Driftless Tour
Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Dülmen, Hausdülmen, Sonnenaufgang — 2015 — 4952” / CC BY-SA 4.0 By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, stayed home and rested as the keeper and Phyllis had an afternoon windshield lunch with the eagles and the crows in the snow-frosted Driftless hills of southwest Wisconsin. Aged venison was on the menu for the birds as they …
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Kickass and DNR Board Outrage
kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in reporting on the recent unbelievable DNR Board meeting at which Walker appointees, one of whom—Wausau tooth-jerker Fred Prehn, refuses to step down from his expired term, voted in favor of continuing to allow the poisoning of surface water …
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