Kickass and trickle down
Kickass, the doorstop dog, asks if it is not totally appropriate for a dog to examine the effects of the “trickle-down” theory as applied to either a dog’s method of marking territory or the Republican’s inclination to give tax breaks to the richest one percent. It has been found that if enough dogs mark territory on a tree, that tree, depending on its size, will eventually become weak and diseased and, over the long haul, lacking healthy watering, it will die. Likewise, an economy based on “trickle down” becomes diseased when only a few of the richest citizens get richer and richer while most of the populace struggles to exist on the edge of abject poverty. Other things fall into line: incredibly rich bankers who wreck the economy are bailed out under trickle down, while homeless and hungry shoplifters get hit over the head by the justice system gavel even if they are simply trying to feed their kids. Kickass suggests it is time for dogs to move from trees to fire hydrants, and for an economic revolution that trickles up to forcefully wash some of the “filth” off the filthy rich.
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Kickass and Mt. RushmoreKickass, the doorstop dog, admits that it was inevitable that he would use his unique powers of communication to overhear a conversation between the four presidential images on Mt. Rushmore: Washington: “Who the hell is that guy with the funny hair?” Lincoln: “As the one who started the country, George, you should know that he is the one who may end it.” Jefferson: “He says he is great and he wants to be up here with us.” Roosevelt: “If he gets up here, I’m leaving. I hear he wants to sell Yellowstone.” Washington: “When you’ve been stoned as long as we have you hear and see strange things, but why aren’t those people with the orange-haired one wearing coronavirus masks?” Lincoln: “You know, George, that childhood, cherry-tree story about you not being able to tell a lie, well, the orange haired one cannot tell anything but lies, and he tells people it doesn’t matter if they get sick and die so long as they vote for him.” Jefferson: “I hear he grabs women indecently, ridicules the handicapped, makes racist remarks and believes money is god.” Roosevelt: “Well, nobody, including us four, is perfect: George has bird crap on his nose again, and there is also some on Teddy’s forehead and on Abe’s ear.” Washington: “The crows are the worst. Maybe if they put the orange-haired one up here they will target him.” Lincoln: “Not worth the risk. I’d rather be crapped on by eagles!”
Kickass and library memories
