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Archive for November, 2009
Posted in Holidays on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Politics, tagged Complaints, Emanuel Cleaver on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cleaver’s plan for “complaint-free Wednesday” collapses under the staggering weight of its own irony.
Kansas Economic Recovery Plan: Stop Buying Stuff
Posted in Daily Wrap, tagged Kansas, Mark Parkinson, Wilco on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today Mark Parkinson, the guy keeping the seat warm for Brownback over in Topeka, announced the latest round of cuts aimed at helping defray the perilous financial condition of the Sunflower State. The solution is simple, really. Stop paying for things! Hey, why didn’t the feds think of that?
As Moore Exits, Is Nick Jordan Packing For ‘Warshington’?
Posted in Dennis Moore, Nick Jordan, Politics, tagged Campaign 2010, Dennis Moore, Kansas 3rd District, Nick Jordan, NPR, Retirements, Steve Kraske on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The news of Dennis Moore’s retirement, and the subsequent repercussions for local politics, is pretty much dominating the KC conversations today — particularly if you fall on the Kansas side of the line. NPR says the GOP is basically salivating at the prospect of stealing Moore’s seat, and local political maven Steve Kraske names a [...]
Mark Mangino Deserves To Be Fired
Posted in Economics, Education, Sports, tagged Firings, KU Football, Lew Perkins, Mark Mangino on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Word on the street — and pretty openly voiced in the mainstream press — is that Saturday’s game against Los Tigres will be Mark Mangino’s last as KU’s head football coach. And it deserves to be, too, but not because of the current brouhaha involving accusations of untoward conduct. No, Mangino should be shown the [...]
Everything That’s Wrong With The Star, Nicely Encapsulated In One Photo-Dominated, Virtually Textless A&E Section
Posted in Art, Film, Local Journalism, Star, tagged KC Star, Viggo Mortensen, Robert Butler, Nicolai Ouroussoff on November 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Newspaper readership has not been the most expansive area of American culture of late, even if recent reports provide some encouraging news. And why is it plummeting? Because papers like the Star make the inexplicable decision to publish a poster-sized photo of Viggo Mortensen while giving you just 409 words of article text on the [...]
So More Like A One-Day Lease, Then? Headlines 11/23/09
Posted in Headlines, tagged Chiefs, Dennis Moore, Steelers on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good morning. Okay, honestly: did a single person in this city believe that the mediocre gridiron crew known as the Chiefs could take down the Steel Menace? Surely not — not on the heels of LJ’s ouster, Bowe’s suspension, and Pittsburgh looking for revenge after the Cincy loss. But hey, it happened.
SOTL Field Trip: A Night At The Missouri Mavericks Truman Jersey Night; Or, Unavoidably, ‘The Puck Stops Here.’
Posted in Field Trips, Local Business, Sports, tagged Hockey, Independence Events Center, Independence MO, Missouri Mavericks, New Teams, SOTL Field Trips on November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the interest of broadening our horizons and gazing upon the new Independence Events Center in all its exurban glory, the State of the Line staff ventured yesternight to an ice-based contest between the Tulsa Oilers and the Missouri Mavericks. It was “Harry Truman Jersey Night,” which meant the local skating gladiators wore garish, stars-and-stripes-bedecked [...]
SOTL Week In Review: Bad Week To Be Named ‘Mark’
Posted in Weekly Wrap, tagged Frankie Valli, Mark Funkhouser, Mark Mangino on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
That wraps up another week at the State of the Line offices. We’re still getting back into the groove around here, so by all means keep sending us your constructive criticism/helpful suggestions/declarations of how unfunny and unoriginal we are. This week saw various controversies surrounding two prominent Marks — one a Mangino and one a [...]
The Passing Of The Snark
Posted in Announcements, tagged Changes, Comments, Snark on November 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Various episodes of the past few weeks have got us thinking that snark, that ascendant tone of internet commentary and bane of the mainstream media, might have worn out its welcome in the halls of online discussion.
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