Attribution: IITU Pictures from Geneva, Switzerland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has more or less given up on deciding just where the much-ballyhooed threat of artificial intelligence fits into his and Phyllis’s “fight-or-flee” existence. It would seem to him that AI with its firm …
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Reason to Believe
Photo by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter Not so long ago, we lived a completely rational, science-based society. Some of us still think that way. Granted, there have always been crackpots, conspiracy theorists, and cult members (and yes, there seem to be a lot more than there used to be), but there is still a …
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Kickass and Parking Justice
Attribution: howtostartablogonline.net, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, with current attention concentrated on the courts, remembers a court incident back in his student days when he got a ticket for parking too close to a crosswalk. The ticket was for $10, not an insignificant sum …
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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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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “Reptile”
Attribution: Photo by Jan Kopřiva on Unsplash Less is More: Movie Review of Reptile By Geoff Carter There have been a spate of movie mysteries making the rounds of theaters and streaming TV during the past year or so. Kenneth Branagh’s remakes of the Agatha Christie classics Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and A Haunting in Venice (based …
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Kickass and DST Fall
Attribution: Alasdair, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, expresses some doubt about the keeper’s post yesterday in which he specified adjusting to DST by setting the clocks ahead by one hour. It was a test of readers’ alertness, of course, and it forcefully made the point that in the …
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Kickass Takes on DST
Attribution: USMC Archives from Quantico, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will not be with the rest of the herd as it participates in DST at 2 am tomorrow and sets the clocks ahead by one hour. Instead, in the spirit of time manipulation, …
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Dialogues on an Eye for an Eye: The Beat Goes On
Attribution: Ashvio, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter It does not minimize the barbarity and cruelty of the Hamas attack upon Israeli citizens to recognize that there is a chronic problem underlying the terrorist attack. Gaza originated as a …
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Kickass and Weight Programs
Attribution: Frank C. Müller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are deep into weight loss programs, Phyllis’s being overseen by a personal health scale that communicates with her and was recently upset when the keeper innocently stepped on it. Obviously not programed to …
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Kickass Gets New Tires
Attribution: David Adam Kess, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, goes along with the keeper in more or less ignoring the big picture and celebrating the positive things in life on a more personal scale—the things he can do something about. So it is with a certain satisfaction, if …
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Yesterday is Here: Celebrating Dia de Los Muertos
Photo by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter We visited the beautiful resort town of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, not so long ago. Our trip happened to coincide with Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. This holiday, celebrated on the evening of November 1st and the day of the 2nd,, is an offshoot of (but …
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