Attribution: White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter On a Sunday morning eighty-five years ago, December 7th, 1941, our nation awoke to the news that the U.S. was at war. Last Sunday, we awoke to learn that we were at war once again, and that this time we were the aggressors. The …
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Kickass and Tech Disaster
Attribution: Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis temporarily capturing what could be considered a substitute grandchild as measured by the ability to help with tech problems. His name is Colin and he and his employees are actually in the business of rescuing the inept from the …
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Kickass and Feeding the Young and Old
Attribution: Photo by Maria Lin Kim on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in acknowledging that as the only meaningful function for every species is reproduction which includes lots of obligatory activities among them feeding the young until they are adept enough to feed themselves. Thus, ingrained early as a vital …
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Kickass and Korean Letters
Attribution: Signal Corps Archive, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, looks over the keeper’s shoulder as he sorts through a packet of “Bill’s letters from Korea” as it was labeled by the keeper’s dear mother who worried and “prayed” him home from a year of combat with an Infantry …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Walking on a Wire: Review of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You ★★★1/2 Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Parenting isn’t easy. This a lesson most of have learned the hard way. An even harder lesson is that perhaps not all of us were not cut out to be the supportive, loving, helpful, …
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Kickass and the War Morning
Attribution: Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper reassessing his self-assigned responsibility to make a daily comment on whatever registers on his erratic flight plan, sometimes as a diversion from an impossible truth and other times to call attention to yet another absurdity or …
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Kickass and Planetary Lineup
Attribution: NASA and ESA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper and Phyllis’s disappointment in hearing the forecast for clouds that will prevent their seeing the rare eight-planet lineup on tap for tonight. They were heartened, however, to learn that the solar system will repeat an …
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Kickass and Eating Duckers
Attribution: Photo by Ross Sokolovski on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper immersed in yet one more significant inquiry into the quality of life: what will be the results of switching from chicken to duck eggs for his breakfast? The human and rat studies go on apace, and guidance is apparently not available …
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Kickass Envies the Trash Collectors
Attribution: Photo by James Day on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper observing that the measure of social value by the very young is largely influenced by the amount of noise made and how it is made, hence the awe and respect for the trash collectors banging around with their awesome over-the- top loader …
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Tariff Tantrum
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In a highly unusual occurrence in modern American politics, the Supreme Court of the United States made a ruling that President Trump did not like. Not at all. Like a nanny taking away a favorite toy from an extremely spoiled child, the justices removed Trump’s tariff powers, ruling …
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Kickass and Alien State of the Union Report
Attribution: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/303938034, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper having intercepted what is obviously a report from an alien observer of the State of the Union spectacle. “In yet another mystifying Earth ritual the leaders of the planet’s richest and allegedly one of the most advanced countries …
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Kickass and The State of Dog Walking
Attribution: Tony Alter from Newport News, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in doing something special to mark the reading of the “State of The Union” in the legislative chambers tonight. As suggested by Kickass himself, an arrangement will be made to treat …
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