Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s long lifetime love/hate relationship with beer will not likely undergo any change with the news that US health officials are eyeballing Canada’s recommendation to drink only two beers per week. Currently the US health recommendation is for no more than two …
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Kickass and Repub Weight Loss Program
Attribution: Tiraspolsky, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper finally got something out of the Repub unreality show currently dominating the media, and that is a weight loss program that he can live with. Demonstrated through the Thursday booking of the mob boss, the plan simply …
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Kickass and Repub Dog Adoption
Attribution: Nhandler, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that what is going on now as the Repubs try to pick a POTUS candidate is akin to promoting dog adoption from a crooked pet shelter that is dominated by the constant loud whining of an unfixed …
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Contempt of Court
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.” –Senator Marsha Blackburn The rule of law. Everyone is equal before the law. The law is the …
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Kickass Nude to Beat the Heat
Attribution: Travis Desell, Archana Dhasarathy, Susan Ellis-Felege, Tom O’Neil, Sergei Nechaev and the University of North Dakota., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper suggested to an assembly of Vista West residents that one measure of dealing with the extreme heat would be to dispense with …
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Kickass and Human Stupidity
Attribution: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, says it may be time to use the current bumper crop of human stupidity to revamp the game of fetch whereby it more resembles the cow chip throwing event honed each fall by …
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Dialogues on the Least Objectionable Candidate: Slim Pickings in Iowa
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Sienna poll today says it’ll be Trump vs Biden. A done deal. Don crushing Ron. I’d like to know (2) things: Politico: Iowa Caucus, 9/8/23 “He might say mean things and make all the …
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Kickass and Westfield Cabin
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper’s recent wallowing in the environs of the Westfield cabin he owned for the last 40-plus years of the previous century may have put such a memory overload on him as to make him unfit for mixed company. That will be …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “White Noise”
Photo by John Jackson on Unsplash Out of the Din: Review of White Noise By Geoff Carter According to Merriam-Webster.com , white noise is defined as an heterogeneous mixture of sound waves extending over a wide frequency range, a constant background noise, or ameaningless or distracting commotion, hubbub, or chatter. In other words, all sound frequencies at the same time. …
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Kickass and TV Dominance
Attribution: Infopablo00, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is working with the keeper and Phyllis to determine the effects of their recent five-day runaway that included NO television watching. The question goes beyond simple survival in the absence of a huge blaring screen, and gets more specific, asking can …
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Kickass and Noise of Living
Attribution: David Benbennick, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, welcomes the keeper and Phyllis back from their five-day runaway to the tiny central Wisconsin lake, and poses the question: If you do not have a job can you legitimately take a vacation? So, it wasn’t a vacation, but rather …
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Kickass and Pea-Brain
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes long the word that the keeper and Phyllis are reentering the chaotic real world at the end of their running away for five days to the peace and tranquility of a tiny sand country lake, too small for motors or loons. It was …
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