Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, citing for authority the fact that he had a Norwegian mother, passes along the inside dope on the romantic tryst between the Capital Square statues of Hans Christian Hegg and Miss Forward. Both statues were reportedly removed …
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All Photos by Geoff Carter
Kickass and Fall Writing
Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that during the keeper’s long journalistic efforts to stay out of the city room and thus avoid editors and honest labor, he came up with a number of writing schemes built around seasons—“Spring up the Mississippi,” “Around Lake Michigan in …
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Kickass and Civilized Restraint
MuZemike, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is totally impressed with the restraint exhibited by the keeper’s species as the likes of Michael Gableman and Fred Prehn and Robin Vos do their taunting buffoon dances across the Wisconsin public squares largely unmolested by the citizenry. By comparable description, Trump’s …
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Kickass and Football Excesses
Pbrown111 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, acknowledging the season of football excesses, assists the keeper in providing revised lyrics to some of the traditional Camp Randall songs: If you want to be a Badger—- “If you want to be a butthead, just come along with …
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Kickass and Outhouse Occupants
Photo by Robert Linder on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper in his efforts to adjust to the absurdity of “minority rule” whereby gerrymandered Republican narcissists have locked themselves in what might be considered—judging from odious emissions–the political/public outhouses, thus denying all kinds of relief to a desperate public. That earthy analogy reminds …
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Kickass and Flowing Water
Markheffron2, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in observing the downstream nature of all things, and in considering how the moving water of flowing streams has been such a powerful source of pleasure through his many years. From boyhood nights alone on Miller Creek, to being …
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Kickass and Treeson
Portable sawmill, Hog Wood by Robin Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, views trees different than the keeper does, but both do so with great respect; and there is guilt involved with the keeper as he views the many trees that were ground into pulp to publish the countless …
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Kickass and the National Mother
Photo by Pixabay from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in lamenting the fact that their great state of Wisconsin is being rapidly converted from a beautiful, enlightened, compassionate field of dreams into a septic system drain-field for the greedy, narcissistic rich. And apparently all the citizens can do is keep flushing the Republican-owned …
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The Best Laid Plans
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter After a long hot week in the city, my wife and I took a trip up to our place in the great Northwoods, a family cottage that we’ve owned for over fifty years. The original cabin was a tiny summer cottage with no basement, heat (except a tiny …
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Kickass Remembers Labor and John
Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper yet again in sorting through Labor Day memories of how the keeper’s old fishing pal John Lawton routinely put an early end to magical Wolf River trout weekends by returning to Madison’s Labor Temple to give a holiday speech …
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Kickass and Wisconsin News
Scochran4, CC BY 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, finding no restrictions against mixing fact and fiction, casts aside the journalistic demand for truth that prevailed during his long newspaper career, and offers the following Wisconsin news roundup: *Fred Prehn, the most painful dentist in Wisconsin, …
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