And so that’s it, we suppose. No sense getting caught up in sappy goodbyes or overwrought arguments for departure — we’ve done that already. In the end, all that’s worth saying is this: it has been a profound privilege and pleasure to work on this blog for the past nine months or so. We attracted [...]
Archive for February, 2009
State Of The Line Will Fight No More Forever
Posted in Announcements, Farewell Tour on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
State Of The Line Farewell Tour: The Star
Posted in Farewell Tour, Star on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ed. note: to celebrate our final week, we’re taking a look back at some of our most frequently covered topics.
Ah, the Star. The local paper of record. The Fallen Star. The Red Star. The Scar. Et cetera, of course. The local paper has no shortage of detractors. We don’t think that we quite fit into [...]
State Of The Line Farewell Tour: Local Blogs
Posted in Farewell Tour, Local blogs on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since we’re departing the local blogosphere, we wanted to humbly make a few suggestions for what you should read in the future. (Though to be honest, if you’re reading this amateurish site then you’re probably already familiar with most of them.) What follows is a list of what we consider to be indispensable Kansas City [...]
State Of The Line Farewell Tour: Mayor Funkquitiro
Posted in Farewell Tour, Funkhouser on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ed. note: to celebrate our final week, we’re taking a look back at some of our most frequently covered topics.
We’ve never covered the trials and tribulations of Mayor Mark Funkhouser and first lady/pseudo-co-mayor Gloria Squitiro as well as our friend Tony, who tracks the mayor’s increasingly bizarre behavior with admirable tenacity. But we’ve had our [...]
State Of The Line Farewell Tour: Paulie
Posted in Farewell Tour, Ink, Paulie on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ed. note: to celebrate our final week, we’re taking a look back at some of our most frequently covered topics.
There are a lot of things we’re going to miss about running this site. But to be totally honest, we might miss Paulie the most. For those who don’t recall the early days of SOTL, Paulie [...]
State Of The Line Farewell Tour: Jack Cashill
Posted in Farewell Tour, Jack Cashill, Politics on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ed. note: to celebrate our final week, we’re taking a look back at some of our most frequently covered topics.
If local conservative “writer” and famous non-intellectual Jack Cashill were to quote Shakespeare, we have little doubt he’d choose to paraphrase Tybalt: “Liberals? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.” Because, [...]
Posted in Education, Headlines, Holidays on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A quick national media shout-out for a local voice: Clancy Martin, philosophy prof at UMKC and (apparently) former jewelry store owner, has an op-ed in the Times today. Some intriguing thoughts, especially if you’ve read The Gift.
In Which SOTL Shuffles Off This Mortal Coil
Posted in Announcements, Notes From Your Editor, SOTL facts on February 12, 2009 | 12 Comments »
A bit of a landscape-shifting news item today: we are announcing the passing of State of the Line into blogosphere oblivion. Next week will be the final one for our humble little site, and will likely be devoted to a series of retrospectives on our favorite subjects. This may come as a bit of surprise [...]
Kansas Liberty Columnist Exposes Seemingly Innocuous Kansas ERA Effort As Covert Pro-Abortion Operation
Posted in Abortion, Local Journalism, Politics, Religion, So-called Journalism on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Conservatives have always held a special grudge against the Equal Rights Amendment for reasons we’ll never entirely understand, though we’re certain it is not because of a very misguided and faith-based view of gender equality. You may have heard that local forces are trying to amend the Kansas constitution with a scale model of the [...]
In Praise Of KSHB
Posted in Local Journalism, Things We Love on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been too negative lately, it seems. Sometimes it’s all too easy to get caught up in endless tides of cynicism, letting the frustrating mundanities of everyday life slant our attitude toward local events in favor of too much snark. So let’s talk about something positive for a change: our total love for local NBC [...]
