Kickass and a Call for Action

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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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 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 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 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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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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