Illustration by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., and Geoff Carter November 6, 2024 Good morning bots, What so good about it?….. F! Have to type…to vent. Randoms: The one specific I wish the Dems would’ve jumped on was the economy whining. Someone, Obama…Bill Clinton, maybe some …
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Kickass Misses Photo Op
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s inability to run with the pack in the area of bird photography as evidenced by his latest attempt to use the super moon as a backdrop for Canada goose photos. (Please take note Phyllis and friend Harry, both skilled photog freaks!) …
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Kickass Has a Dream
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the word that the keeper is seeking help with interpreting a dream that put a confusing spin on the last hour of his sleep: He is in downtown Chicago with two dogs which he is to deliver to a theatre director for …
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Dialogues on Gone in Sixty Seconds: Deportation Desperation
Attribution: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Department of Homeland Security), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., and Geoff Carter Trump sign o’ the times. Just got back from changing a flat tire on my daughter’s car. She was stranded on 24th and Pierce (across …
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Kickass and Animal Messages
Attribution: Scot Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, exercising his unique abilities to intercept communications of all kinds, passes along the following: To the sheep: “New dogs—with long legs and sharp teeth, will be replacing the border collies and will herd you with a …
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Kickass and Civilization History
Attribution: Thomas Shahan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in wondering if it will be something like the great pyramids, a buried terracotta army, giant Easter Island type stone figures or something else that future anthropologists find to prove that the present “civilization” did indeed exist …
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Suckers and Losers
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Seventy-five million and counting. This is the number of citizens who just voted to elect Donald Trump as our 47thpresident. Like P.T. Barnum once said, I guess there is a sucker born every minute. These guys gobbled up Trump’s bombastic rhetoric, hate speech, racist dogma, and false promises …
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Time of the Season
The Pen in Hand Blog
Illustration by Michael DiMilo
Kickass and Old Love
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper is celebrating the 6th anniversary of his traveling to Arizona to kidnap Phyllis in her own car to come and live with him in Wisconsin at a time in their lives when falling can be a hazard unless it is falling in …
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Kickass and Dead Fish Photos
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is off on a research rampage to determine why it so pleases people—mostly men, to be photographed with a fish, usually a good-sized dead fish and sometimes with a whole string of smaller dead fish? It is a circumstance prominent …
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Kickass and Veterans Day
The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes
Attribution: MC3 Karolina A. Martinez, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Retired_U.S._Navy_Capt._Jack_R._Evans_salutes_an_American_flag_and_recites_the_Pledge_of_Allegiance_during_a_Pearl_Harbor_memorial_ceremony_at_the_Veterans_Museum_and_Memorial_Center_in_San_Diego_121207-N-JN664-033.jpg
The Pen in Hand’s Guide to Going Above and Beyond: The Ten Best War Movies
Capt. Saska Ball, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Originally published in June, 2019) By Geoff Carter “…that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain… –Abraham Lincoln, …
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