Kyiv City State Administration, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation that it is impossible to imagine what it is like when an artillery shell lands in your living quarters and kills members of your family. Likewise, even for the keeper’s fellow residents of Vista West, most …
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Kickass and Robin Vos
Jongsun Lee, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that once again it has fallen to the keeper to intercept some of the communications from unusual sources, most recently the petition from the robins, now flocking back into the state by the thousands from southern environs, which demands that …
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Kickass and St. Pat’s Commentary
Tasha Carl, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, cautions the keeper to be careful with St. Patrick’s Day comments, considering the trouble he once caused by writing in a Chicago Tribune column that he and many others were tired of stumbling over drunken Irishmen passed out on the sidewalks …
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My Fellow Travelers
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter As I was driving to work the other day, I stopped for a red light at a fairly busy intersection. As I waited for it to change, a blue Mustang pulled up next to me in the right turn lane. The driver paused, looked both ways, and then …
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Kickass and Phyllis’ Birthday
Selena N. B. H. from Fayetteville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be assisting the keeper in helping Phyllis celebrate her birthday today, having already—a day early, served her breakfast in bed and having made a grand speech about an expensive gift that he claims to be …
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Kickass and Special Communication Powers
Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has lent his special communications powers to the keeper as he—the keeper intercepts messages from the Russian oligarch who is buying Wisconsin as a location for his “up-nort” retreat. Obviously heavily influenced by the recent “60-Minutes” portrayal of Wisconsin as helplessly under the control …
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Dialogues on Tripping the Lie Fantastic: Letters from Paris
Elvis L., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots Mark Mamerow, Dave S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Hey Bots, Check this out: Singing Putin: Blueberry Hill Strong and attractive… Mark M. Martial law!! Karaoke!! We must take Blueberry Hill!! –Geoff The Daily Kos: Back in 1982 I was dealing acid at …
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Kickass and Kyle’s Movie
Photo by Lê Minh from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis got a fascinating exposure to the complexity and difficult of movie making from nephew Kyle Hauseman-Stokes when Kyle and the keeper’s brother Orville visited; and Kyle showed a preliminary version of his movie about the heart-rending relationship between two …
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The Couch Potato’s Guide to Old Hollywood: The Legacy of Burt Lancaster
Hal Wallis Productions, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Burt Lancaster started his show business career as a young circus performer in the acrobatic duo of Lang and Cravat, but soon graduated to theater and, finally, the movies. His dominating screen presence landed him in tough-guy roles in films like The Killers and Brute Force where his …
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Kickass and DST
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, was assisting the keeper in storing the extra hour that results from the current Daylight Saving Time scheme when it was discovered that the storage space for his previous “extra” DST hours was at capacity, indicating a terrible inclination to waste time and to …
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Kickass Chooses Phyllis Rant
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in the cold sunshine of Mar. 12, 2022 to shuffle through possible subjects for his—the keeper’s daily rant—Putin’s incomprehensible war, the price of gasoline, Wisconsin’s gerrymandered legislature spitting in the face of the citizenry, incredibly arrogant Prehn forcing the continuation of …
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Dialogues on an Unhinged Mind: Letters from the Front
BakeNecko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark Mamerow, Dave. S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Bots, The EU and the US have frozen the assets of the Russian Central Bank, and this – along with numerous corporate sanctions – is tanking the ruble. The US is cutting off Russian …
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