So apparently if you’ve been in Kansas City for a long time — which I’ll admit I haven’t — you know all too well that Prairie Village resident Mike Babick likes to erect an annual Christmas display rife with moving parts and creepy automatons. And that’s his right as an American, by god, as a [...]
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Local Heathens Wage War On Christmas, Ostentation
Posted in Controversy, Holidays, Religion, Transportation, tagged Christmas, Holiday Displays, Parking, Parties, Prairie Village, U-S-A!, War On Christmas on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ESPN Reaction To Woods Imbroglio Brings Out The Ranting, Angry, Scorned Gunman Inside Jason Whitlock
Posted in Controversy, Jason Whitlock, Sports, tagged AKs, ESPN, Jason Whitlock, Odd Opinions, Rick Reilly, Tiger Woods on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So it has to be just a matter of time until Jason Whitlock blocks us from viewing his Twitter feed, right? In the meantime, though, let’s turn a critical eye to Jason’s latest bizarre comments on that overrated social networking tool. Seems ESPN’s Rick Reilly was on SportsCenter to talk about the whole Tiger Woods [...]
Bang The Drum Slowly Today For Local Fallen Cervidae
Posted in Animals, City Government, Controversy, tagged Canada, deer, Funerals, Shawnee Mission Park on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since the controversy over the deer-culling at Shawnee Mission Park is, somehow, still not over, should we add to the mix of craziness a funeral for the hoofed beasts in question? Sure, why not. Now, if only we could get a Canadian to attend and add some melodrama… done!
In Which Rod Jetton Decides To End His Career
Posted in Controversy, Drama, Local Journalism, Politics, Romance, tagged Rod Jetton, Sex Games Gone Awry, Green Balloons, Blowups, Assault on December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Oh, Rod. What could you possibly have been thinking? There you were, the ex-speaker and cherubic, baby-faced darling of the Missouri right wing. You had money. Clout. The ears of influential people. And you threw it all away for some ill-advised S&M action. Tut, tut.
Posted in City Government, Controversy, tagged Funkhouser, Coups on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Details of the palace coup play-by-play are starting to emerge.
Citymanagerus cauthenensis Joins Extinct KC Creatures
Posted in City Government, Controversy, Funkhouser, Politics, tagged Kansas City Politics, KC City Council, Mark Funkhouser, Wayne Cauthen on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
And so the long-running feud between our gaunt mayor and our dyspeptic city manager has come to an end. The City Council voted to uphold Mayor Funkhouser’s suspension of the bespectacled world traveler, and now our long citywide nightmare is — well, probably far from over.
Your KC Buzzword Of The Day Is ‘Bully,’ And Whitlock Doth Protest Too Much
Posted in Controversy, Jason Whitlock, Local Journalism, Sports, tagged Mark Mangino, KU Football, Jason Whitlock, KC Media. Hypocrisy on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
And not in the cool British way, either That’s right: the word sweeping the halls of the local media, creating a feeding frenzy of indignant denunciations, is none other than “bully” — as in “Man, I knew Mangino was a bully! I, uh, just never said anything before!”
Mission Valley Revolutionaries Take On The Man At Meeting
Posted in Controversy, Education, tagged Prairie Village, Ryan Haraughty on November 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Floridagate: the scandal that refuses to die. Last night the angry students and parents of normally idyllic Prairie Village took a break from tooling down the elm-lined streets in their S40s and instigated an uprising. Cue the fists of solidarity! Oh, and guess what boring parent makes a cameo.
Is It Time To Pull The Plug On The Haraughty Uprising?
Posted in Controversy, Education, tagged Facebook Revolutions, Ryan Haraughty, Scandals on November 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Another weekday, another story about the impressive support being shown by students and parents for deposed geography enthusiast Ryan Haraughty. The mobilization of the Mission Valley Middle School activists is impressive, and we commend the students for taking an interest in affairs outside the Playstation realm. But with the latest moves from the SMSD board, [...]
