Kickass and Good Neighbors

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis and friends Hester, Larry and Michael in a lunch visit with across-the-street neighbor “The Lussier Community Education Center” and came away well fed and greatly impressed with the broad scope of meaningful services the center’s staff and dedicated volunteers …
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Kickass and Visit of Boo

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, gives the floor to the keeper and Phyllis to pass on the verity that sandwiches climb into a rarefied culinary class when they are delivered and prepared by a son and granddaughter—Mike and Sarah who also brought along Boo the aging little schnauzer who …
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Dialogues on Big Bilious Billionaire Boys’ Bill: Profiles in Avarice

Illustration by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., and Geoff Carter Hey bots, Well, it’s about to become the law of the land. Somehow, Trump and the spineless Republican invertebrates (redundant, I know, but their lack of courage bears repeating) have passed the bilious Billionaire …
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Kickass and “In Our Places”

Attribution: B137, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper marveling some mornings on how it all fits together with everyone getting to their places and doing whatever it is that needs doing and then retreating at the end of the day to their personal haunts where family and …
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Chinese Finger Trap

Attribution: carol, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Let’s try a reality check: These are only a few—the greatest hits—of the latest conspiracy theories. Of course, we have the golden oldies like the earth is flat, contrails are poisoning people, Area 51 was an alien landing site being concealed by the government, and …
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Kickass and Global Warming

Attribution: NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper greeting the day by reading a Facebook post written by “John Scheve” and passed along by Tom G that does a deep dive into global warming’s catastrophic weather effects. In a complex explanation of how warming ocean currents …
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Kickass and July 21, 2025

Attribution: Steve Shook from Moscow, Idaho, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper likes to start the week off on a positive note and passes along the information that on July 21, 2025 both he and Phyllis got up, got dressed, got coffee, got into …
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Kickass Gets a Tattoo

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper will be taking the commenting day off but as a space filler he will show a photo of the tattoo on the back of his right hand. Once as a columnist, the keeper asked readers to recommend a tattoo for him …
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Kickass and Conspiracy

Attribution: Photo by Brandon Morgan on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper is suspicious that the conspiracy theorists have more fun, particularly if they get appointed to the current administration from hell which happens to many of them. With this in mind, the keeper joins the conspiracy theorist ranks with the following:  A “rapture” …
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