The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, pauses with the keeper as he—the keeper, assesses “the state of stupidity” as manifested by the following examples: *The red dressed idiot woman narcissist who shouted insults as the POTUS spoke about losing his son to a …
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Kickass 3/1/22
ВО «Свобода», CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listens yet again as the keeper revisits his mile and one-half walk to the one-room country school with his sister Norma on the warm day in March when the towering snowbanks suddenly turned into flooding torrents, one of which swept across …
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Dialogues in The Echo Chamber: Letters from the Unemployment Office
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots Mark Mamerow., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, February 6, 2022: ‘It’s not like we don’t have enough jobs here in Wisconsin’: Ron Johnson won’t try to land Oshkosh Corp. …
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Kickass and Driftless Tour
Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Dülmen, Hausdülmen, Sonnenaufgang — 2015 — 4952” / CC BY-SA 4.0 By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, stayed home and rested as the keeper and Phyllis had an afternoon windshield lunch with the eagles and the crows in the snow-frosted Driftless hills of southwest Wisconsin. Aged venison was on the menu for the birds as they …
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One Summer: Two Worlds
Film Review of Summer of Soul Gind2005, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons August 15, 1969, marked a number of turning points in American culture. It was a watershed moment for the youth counterculture. The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival began near the tiny town of Bethel, New York. Over the next four days, more than …
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Get Boosted!!
Animation by Michael DiMilo
Kickass and Family Gathering
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are coming off a weekend of hosting members of the keeper’s clan—a son, grandchildren, a granddaughter-in-law, great-grand-children and a family dog named Boo that once lived with the keeper and Phyllis. Needless to say, it was immeasurably precious …
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Kickass and War Conditioning
Author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes “War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It’s hardly a civilized pursuit. It’s amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve peace.” –Walter Cronkite Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the …
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Kickass and DNR Board Outrage
kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in reporting on the recent unbelievable DNR Board meeting at which Walker appointees, one of whom—Wausau tooth-jerker Fred Prehn, refuses to step down from his expired term, voted in favor of continuing to allow the poisoning of surface water …
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Burning Down the House
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Teachers are losing control of their classrooms, and it’s not because students have gone wild. No, the kids are not taking over the schools. They’re just fine. In fact, a student revolution wouldn’t be nearly as disturbing as what’s really going on. It’s the Republicans that are attacking …
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Kickass and World Mother
Photo by Evgeni Tcherkasski on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, again endorses the keeper’s call for the creation of a no-nonsense “World Mother” with tribal authority to take the likes of Putin by the back of the neck and bang his head against the wall until he stops acting as the playground bully. So long …
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Kickass and the VA Waiting Room
Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass ,the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in offering the following vary short play entitled “Waiting With Old Vets.” Scene: Waiting room at VA West. The keeper enters from stage left; and retrieves number 39 from the lab scheduling device as one of …
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