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 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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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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Kickass and Wisconsin Government

Attribution: Ander107, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in updating the political sideshow that prevails in the gerrymandered, minority-representation Wisconsin government. 1.   The Republicans on the state Supreme Court, suddenly finding themselves in the minority, threaten–through their whining leader Ziegler to bring back their vaudeville tactics whereby …
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Kickass and Beer Drinking

Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s long lifetime love/hate relationship with beer will not likely undergo any change with the news that US health officials are eyeballing Canada’s recommendation to drink only two beers per week. Currently the US health recommendation is for no more than two …
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Kickass and Human Stupidity

Attribution: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, says it may be time to use the current bumper crop of human stupidity to revamp the game of fetch whereby it more resembles the cow chip throwing event honed each fall by …
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