Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, congratulates Phyllis, the committee, and the several hundred people who showed up Thursday afternoon at Gammon Road and Tree Lane to send a “good trouble” message that “they are not willing to abide a leader who treats them as inconvenient garbage”. Passing that “good …
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Kickass and Canada Ostriches
Attribution: Oleksiy.golubov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting how the keeper likes to stay informed about issues involving Canada since it is Phyllis’s birthplace, he was intrigued by the news that RFK Jr, the US Sec. of HHS sent a letter to Canada’s prime minister asking that 400 …
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Depraved Indifference
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter According to The New York Unified Court System, “DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE TO HUMAN LIFE refers to a person’s state of mind in recklessly engaging in conduct which creates a grave risk of death. A person has a depraved indifference to human life when that person has an utter disregard for …
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Kickass and H. L. Mencken
Attribution: Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins Phyllis in indulging the keeper yet again as he swings on the big memory vine back to his early newspaper column writing days when the job had a glorious history with the likes of Mark Twain, Ring Lardner, …
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Kickass and Blueberry Pie
Attribution: Elizabeth K. Joseph from San Francisco, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper and Phyllis try to find the reasons for any gains in their daily weigh-ins, with Phyllis being much the expert and frequently reminding the keeper of that. So it was …
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Kickass and Rosie O’Donnell
Attribution: David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, does not often step aside for guest voices, but makes an exception for Rosie Odonnell who sent the following from her home in Ireland to the rabid POTUS after he threatened to revoke her citizenship: “You are everything that is wrong with …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: The Legacy of Jodie Foster
Attribution: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Jodie Foster has been an actor nearly her entire life–over fifty years. We’ve literally watched her grow up on the screen. From a youngster in a Coppertone commercial to a precocious Disney child star in Napolean and Samantha, Candleshoe, and the original Freaky Friday, she graduated to more …
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Kickass and the River
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis joining part of the clan for a first-sweetcorn river-side feast and learning yet another method of communing with the great river as it heads south, having completed its 23-dam work in Wisconsin. That new method is to sit in a …
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Kickass and ICE Pets
Attribution: Nhandler, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, seeks the keeper and Phyllis’s help in dealing with the impact of the shameless ICE invasion on pets. This is a serious matter particularly in California where pet shelters are increasingly over-loaded with the pets of children and berry-picking grandmothers identified …
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Dialogues on California Girls: Winning with Elegance
Attribution: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., John K., and Geoff Carter CA State HS Track Meet, Clovis, CA Been sometime since, if memory serves representative Curley, (D-Mequon/Costa Rica), shared a bunch of psychology links/takes pointing out the complexity of this issue, …
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Kickass and No Sunrise
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, points out that yesterday the keeper recorded the sunrise as an indication that despite personal and political travails the appearance of the sun peaking over the horizon was really all that counted. Well, this morning it didn’t happen. There was no peaking red ball …
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Kickass and July 10th Sunrise
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper may be overloaded with concerns about both natural and political disasters to the point that he needed some reassurance that while all may not be well, some important things are happening, such as the sunrise of July 10, 2025. It happened …
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