Olathean Charged With Transparent Lying, Prostitution

Remember when you were a kid, and you were convinced that if you told a lie hard enough and stuck with it determinedly enough, people would just believe you? Such is the case today for one woman in Olathe (!) — that hotbed of neo-evangelism — who was busted by police for engaging in the [...]

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Growing Ever More Desperate, The Star Erects A Pay Wall

Information wants to be free, we keep being told. Note, though, that the people saying that usually stand to benefit financially from said information being free. But let’s face it: pay walls on media sites are likely inevitable. Rupert Murdoch is about to come down hard on the giveaway of news — and now the [...]

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By Sheer Coincidence, KC Star Heeds SOTL Advice By Revamping Web Site

Funny that two days after O’Neil made several noteworthy comments about Star publisher Mark Zieman’s fuzzy math regarding the readership and quality of the paper and the atrocious interactivity and design of its online presence, we see that kansascity.com has unveiled a new look. We can only assume that Mr. Zieman is a fan of SOTL [...]

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Secular Humanists Buy Precious Ad Space on Local Billboard; Baptists On the Verge of Being Hopping Mad Until Realizing it Resembles Dancing

Local reaction to a national billboard campaign from the American Humanist Association, from KSHB (note: this story only has an image of a different, local billboard; for the actual ad in question, click here):
A national Christmas ad campaign against religion offends some in the metro. It even irritates members of the Atheist community.
The ad “Why [...]

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KC Media World Reaches Hilarious New Low With ‘ENVY’

So last night the editor of this humble blog brought this media critic’s attention to a new “lifestyle magazine” in our friendly city: it’s called ENVY, and apparently it always has to be spelled in capital letters. We’ve so far had to mostly limit our media mockery criticism to KC’s Most Important Social Networkingish “Media” [...]

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Star’s Experiment in Press Release Marxism-Leninism Ruined by Spam. Russia Sympathetically Says, “Been There, Dudes.”

Every so often, we like to peruse some of the items posted on The Star’s “Press Release Central” blog…no, message board…er, information forum…uh, thingy. Kansascity.com has offered this service for about a year now — admittedly, we’re not exactly sure how we feel about this concept. In some ways, it is a convenient tool for [...]

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Wrapping Up 30 Days of Jay: It’s Families Galore!

Those master tacticians over at 30 Days of Jay, Kenny Hulshof’s ill-conceived and poorly executed last-ditch campaign smear, appear to have finally stumbled upon a winning formula: pictures of couples and families. But if you were looking for actual complaints about Jay Nixon, you’re still in the wrong place. 30DoJ has served as little more [...]

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Kay Barnes Will Laugh as Your Lungs Fill With Water

Well, we’ve already seen that Big City Mayor Kay Barnes will bring the swirling, tornadic winds of liberalism to Congress. Now the kind folks over at the NRCC — how do they sleep at night, incidentally? — have more proof that a Barnes victory will result in continued plagues of near-Biblical proportions:
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Today’s 30 Days of Jay entry features the coolest-named couple ever: “Micki and Ramone Marrero.” Also, apparently we’re now spelling Jay’s name as “JayNixon.” Love it.

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Curses. Kenny Hulshof has stumbled across the one surefire way to get us to not make fun of 30 Days of Jay: put kids in the photo. You win this round, Kenny.

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