Attribution: Tichnor Brothers, Publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Found this insightful, if not entertaining. Gail and Brett…and others have been espousing the value of the 3 year college degree—fits like a glove with this Economist value centric …
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Category:Wisconsin
The Miseducation of America
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter The 1983 study, “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform” sounded major alarms about the American public education system. It maintained that our schools were failing because that, among other things, that SAT scores had dropped drastically, students could no longer write coherent essays, draw inferences, …
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Dialogues on Regime Rebuilding: All You Need is Love
Attribution: All-Pro Reels from District of Columbia, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter We need a tag for Jordan Love. J-lo? Taken. J-Love? Long and not subtle, but I guess it’ll do. He throws a gorgeous, and increasingly …
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Kickass at the Cider Farm Cidery
Attribution: Hubertl, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having refused to accept Dec. 3, 2023 as unfit for human consumption, hastens to amend his rejection to exempt the afternoon’s repast by the keeper and Phyllis at the Cider Farm Cidery next to Brennen’s on Mineral …
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Kickass and Hummingbirds
Attribution: Paul Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the information that it was apparently not enough to up the alcoholic content of the nectar in the balcony hummingbird feeder to the degree that some hummingbirds might opt to winter in Wisconsin. It might have helped keep …
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Kickass Hibernates
Attribution: Michael Himbeault, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will not question the keeper’s conclusion on this nasty weather day that, like many of the lesser creatures, he has finally accomplished the life-long goal of hibernation. It was there right in front of him but he was too dense to …
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Kickass and Gun Users
Attribution: National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting yet another Sunday when the guns are out in Wisconsin in such numbers as would equip an army. Many thousands of guns of all descriptions are in the hands of amateur users …
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Kickass and Opening Morning
Attribution: USDA photo by Scott Bauer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is out there on his stand this opening-morning of the traditional Wisconsin deer hunt, and if it is symbolic only it is no less of an emotional trip. The opportunity to be alone …
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Kickass Remembers Walking to School
Attribution: H. A. Brendekilde , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting the abuse suffered by those who have the audacity to mention that they walked to a country school through thick and thin and winter blizzards. Just as these ancients get no respect for having …
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Kickass and Wisconsin State Cocktail
Attribution:Steven Miller, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper may have to revise his assessment of the current Repub minority-representation Wisconsin legislature as a narcissistic do-nothing-except-for-the-rich bunch of self-serving revisionist gerrymandered obstructionists. With a record of contrary disregard for populace needs and desires and basic decency, …
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Kickass and Beer Bird Feeder
Attribution: Cat Lee Ball, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, says the keeper, in his efforts to fit into the natural community and seasonal cycles, will be removing the sweet water from the hummingbird feeder on his balcony and filling it with beer, Spotted Cow of course. It is …
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Kickass and Butterfly Snowflakes
Attribution: Photo by Kacper Szczechla on Unsplash, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is big on accepting things but is sorely challenged this morning as a few random snowflakes drift down out of a gray sky with the obvious message that there is more to come, …
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