Attribution: Joe Biden: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (source: Joe Biden); User:TDKR Chicago 101 (clipping) Donald Trump: Shealah Craighead (source: White House) Сombination: krassotkin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, Last week’s biggest political …
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Kickass and Sunday Poem
Attribution: David Castor (dcastor), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, doesn’t always approve of the keeper’s poetry fits but he is powerless to stop them… THIS SUNDAY Today is the day, For praying to stay On the gods’ good side Or they’ll take you away. Faith for the believers, …
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Kickass and Time in Alabama
Attribution: ErgoSum88, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, celebrates with the keeper in finally nailing down the fact that the keeper’s lifetime of doing totally stupid things is directly related to time spent in Alabama as he was emerging from his teenage years. Prior to spending three months in …
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Kickass and Ken’s Sketch
Artwork by Ken Opin By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, cautions the keeper not to get carried away with grandiosity in the wake of Ken Opin’s excellent sketch portrait as Ken does a series of old friends in his remarkable sparse style that captures the essence of his subjects with a few deft lines. …
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Clown Shoes
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter He’s done it again. That Master of Marketing, the man who brought us Celebrity Apprentice, Trump Airlines, Trump University, ACN Communications, a series of failed casinos, his own line of urine tests, and of course, his name, his exclusive brand—his name, seen emblazoned in garish golden letters across …
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Kickass and Ogling
Attribution: David Mican, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper spends a lot of time at the Madison VA eye clinic receiving expert treatment and monitoring that has kept him in the vision game for decades. As a gesture of appreciation, the keeper reports on a …
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Kickass and Crashing Satellite
Attribution: Photo by Rae Wallis on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the observation from the keeper that he will be spending the day watching for the European Space Agency’s used up satellite to crash into the earth and mostly burn up in the atmosphere, with the chances being 1 in 100 billion that …
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Kickass and Frozen Cows
Attribution: GiorgioEinserkofel Galeotti, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper says to never mind the first robin, where he grew up in northwest Wisconsin, even the crows left to avoid the shank of winter; and he remembers it as a sign of early spring to hear …
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Kickass Dials Up Dreams
Attribution: Ziga, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is cooperating with the keeper to refine his dial-a-dream technology on the heels of waking up from a lengthy session on the Wolf River with the likes of companions John Lawton, Carl Lee and Art Jensen, and Claude from the garage …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Film Review of “Nyad”
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Treading Water: Film Review of Nyad ★★★☆☆ Biopics can be tricky. Creating a film about the life of a notable person can either transcend the material and become more than just one person’s life story or become enamored of—or mired in—sundry details of that life to the point …
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Kickass and Four Sons
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is performing a public service this morning by informing the residents of Colorado and other western haunts that the keeper’s four sons—Larry, Scott, Rick and Mike, have assembled at Rick and Becky’s home near Denver in what they claim is …
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Kickass Visits House
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis returned to their former Mazomanie hilltop digs Friday to help celebrate great granddaughter Samilla’s third birthday; and the record will show that for the keeper it was an emotional outing—being with family in its boisterous good health in …
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