Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in mounting an “insurrection” against the infuriating arrogance of the Wausau dentist and cranberry company owner who refuses to step down from his expired term on the DNR Board, thus keeping in place Walker DNR policies …
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Category:Wisconsin
Kickass Chases His Tail
Lil Shepherd, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is with the keeper in noting that the home planet is either burning up, flooded, or poisoned to become generally unlivable; and vast numbers of residents are refusing life-saving vaccination; and others are insisting that votes do not count unless they …
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Kickass and the Minimum Dumbness Plan
Robin Vos Lehnmat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is trying to assist the keeper in formulating a “Minimum Dumbness Program” (MDP) whereby individuals are prevented by law from reaching a level of dumbness in which they think they are getting a fair shake in a government owned by …
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Kickass and Dumb Bear Hounders
Jim Bowen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper hates it when he must admit being wrong—as infrequently as it happens, but after naming the election of Ron Johnson and the temporary establishment of dog racing tracks as the dumbest things to happen in Wisconsin, he …
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Kickass and Four Horses’ Asses
Albrecht Dürer , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is with the keeper as he—the keeper “rides” through unfamiliar Biblical “Revelations” territory with the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and a formulates a Wisconsin version to be known as the Four Horses Asses of Wisconsin’s Demise: Arrogance, Ignorance, Narcissism and …
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Kickass and the Park Purchase
Yinan Chen, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper barely remembers how to rant about positive things, so there was some verbal fumbling with the good news this week that the Wisconsin DNR Board approved the $1.64 million purchase of 220 acres to be added to …
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Kickass and Official State Stink
Rawpixel Ltd, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, aware of various “official” state symbols—the badger, robin, etc.–is suggesting that the stench of cow manure become the official state odor and that it be pumped into Wisconsin’s legislative chambers where there is apparent approval for poisoning the …
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Kickass and Republican History
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes with the keeper that the gerrymandered chokehold the narcissistic Republicans have on the democratic political system will be its downfall: a kennel operating for the benefit of only a few tall dogs with no meaningful sustenance for the hordes of mutts cannot endure. …
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Kickass and River Calamity
Holyoke Water Power Company, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that there are those among the keeper’s followers who may recall the ill-fated expedition when the keeper and his son Mike rigged a pontoon boat for a trip down the Wisconsin/Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, and only got …
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Kickass and Big and Little Lies
“Nekoosa Paper Company on Wisconsin River” National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in lamenting the very latest—and to the keeper the most offensive, example of rich men in positions of power refusing to acknowledge that their terms have expired: Fred Prehn, …
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Kickass and Supreme Court Unmasked
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that if Wisconsin were the Suez Canal it would be permanently obstructed by the state Supreme Court which recently went aground in striking down Gov. Evers mask mandate. Wisconsin residents may be on the way to surviving Covid 19, but a greater test will …
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Cheeseheads
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I used to be proud of being a Wisconsinite. There was a time when our state was a national leader in education, clean government, and public works. We used to have one of the country’s best state-run university systems. Wisconsin had a progressive tradition reaching back to the …
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