Commentary

December 3, 2009 Like 0 James Burrus

When I was a kid, I knew it was Christmas when after going to church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my parents loaded up my brother, Danny, and I (and later David) into the blue, ’60s vintage Buick Skylark station…

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Dear Santa…

December 3, 2009 Like 0 French Davis

There are a lot of things I’d like for my >INSERT APPROPRIATE SECULAR HOLIDAY HERE< gift this year. So, I decided the fair thing to do would be to list them all here, so my legions of readers and fans…

Notes

Everything’s Coming Up Pink

December 3, 2009 Like 0 Andra Coberly

I thought the Paris Hilton fad was done. I thought we were over her, and by “we,” I mean whoever found her worthy of attention in the first place. I thought it was now uncool to dislike her, passé even.…

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Thumbin’ It

November 12, 2009 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Hitchhiking has always been good to me, but I can’t say the same for a certain drunk who once rolled in an early ‘70s Opel GT. His car was on the verge of a coronary; it was merely fate that…

Notes

Mind the Gap

November 12, 2009 Like 0 Andra Coberly

When the federal government buoyed GM and Chrysler, in newsrooms across the country, reporters and editors thought to themselves, “What about us?”

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Elections are Report Cards

October 19, 2009 Like 0 James Burrus

Challenging an incumbent in a primary election is a clear signal that A) the extreme fringe of the party is upset about said incumbent tracking to center or B) severe incompetence or grievous moral lapse has chummed the waters.

Duly Noted

Duly Noted: For the Record

October 19, 2009 Like 0 French Davis

I went into a music store yesterday. An honest-to-God, brick-and-mortar music store. It’s a lot like going into a museum, except the whole thing’s the gift shop. In fact, this particular music store even sold records.

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It’s A Jungle Out There

October 19, 2009 Like 1 Andra Coberly

It can be said that the ecosystem known as municipal politics is similar to that of the wild kingdom.

Commentary

The Tatanka Tribe

October 14, 2009 Like 0 Andra Coberly

Football is a rough game—as a profession and as a pastime. It’s a game of titans, of hard knocks, of long spiraling passes that are watched with breath held, and of stadiums erupting into rapturous glee. It’s a game of…

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Everything I Needed to Know…

September 10, 2009 Like 0 James Burrus

Exactly why, at age 9, I began showing up with my dad (who had an office in the same space above the Katz Drug Store on the Square in Independence, Mo.) to work in my grandfather’s law office is vague.