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Posted in Environment, tagged Ozone on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ink’s ‘Frink’ Panel Still Answering The City’s Most Pressing Questions With Glib, Canned Responses
Posted in Environment, Ink, Local Journalism, tagged Captain Fauxhawk, Frink Panel, Vegetarianism on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps you’re aware that Ink, this city’s sassiest weekly, long ago convened a panel of KC’s young intelligentsia (a group from which we were excluded, despite much pretend-lobbying). Hard to believe, but the mini-RAND keeps on truckin’, addressing everything from Obama’s Nobel Prize to, uh, hypothetical vegetarianism. It’s the lord’s work.
Mad “mminnoe” Waaaaay Beyond Thunderdome
Posted in Comedy, Environment, ExNet blogs, Local blogs, Trivial, mminnoe, tagged Back to the Future, Examiner, hog farm, Independence, Mad Max, methane production, Missouri, mminnoe, Thunderdome on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOTL Poet Laureate “mminnoe,” Philosopher-King of the Examiner.net Blogdom, once again looks to popular entertainment to solve our nation’s various quandaries. Readers may recall that in his previous treatise, which has come to be known as the “Kenworth Doctrine,” mminnoe suggested that the TV show ”24″ can help the U.S. devise a viable 21st-Century geopolitical strategy (and also shared [...]
Johnson Countians Advocate Bambicide; Venison Picnic to Immediately Follow
Posted in Animals, Environment, Headlines, Trivial, Uncategorized, tagged Johnson County, hunting, deer, cull, Shawnee Mission Park, Lyme disease, Tom Daschle on February 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Your days are numbered, woodland creatures — consider yourselves on notice! “Outcry grows to cull deer at Shawnee Mission Park“
After decades of overpopulation, the deer population in the park has grown to nearly unmanagable levels. With such large numbers comes the possibility of significant public health issues, as lyme disease and other illnesses can spread [...]
Kansas Woman Aims to Sow Seeds of Change, Lettuce as White House Farmer
Posted in Announcements, Environment, Farming, Food, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Good Natured Farms, USDA, White House Farmer on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s not exactly electing a president, but your vote can help send a local woman to the White House.
Diana Endicott of Good Natured Farms is among the nominees in the running to be the first White House Farmer — you can read her bio here. GNF has a pretty interesting story — here’s a bit about [...]
Posted in Environment, Walter Winch on January 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Nice try, Walter Winch, but no way are you tricking us into clicking on “Too Much Poop.”
Daring Dames Defy Darwinist Dogma, Declare Determination to Distribute Daily Diet to Domesticated Ducks
Posted in "Journalism", Animals, Environment, Odd Behavior, Trivial, tagged Batman, Blue Springs, Dairy Queen, Darwin, duck lady, ducks, Eliot Spitzer, Examiner, kansas city, lake, Rotary Park on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Examiner…uh…reports on two Blue Springs ladies who audaciously bite their respective thumbs at the Rotary Park rule against feeding ducks: “Duck ladies take responsibility for birds at park.”
Together, the two Blue Springs women have become Duck Lady One, known in the telephone book and among family and friends as Dolores Sherwood, and Duck Lady Two, or [...]
Star Blogger Walter Winch Unmasks Illuminati-Like Global Logging Conspiracy In Rambling, Tangential Column
Posted in Environment, Star, Walter Winch on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, Walter Winch: so many times you’ve brought us the sheer joy of your barely coherent ramblings. It’s a good thing you’re a dedicated environmentalist, and thus remain squarely on our side. What’s going on here in your latest column, “Smile When You Pillage”? Are you attacking logging companies? Quoting Shakespeare and Pink Floyd? Making [...]
MoDOT Beets the Streets
Posted in Environment, Trivial, Weather, tagged beets, Dwight Schrute, MoDOT, winter on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Missouri Department of Transportation is using a beet juice/salt mix for treating area roads during winter nastiness:
The official name of the product is Geomelt. It looks like motor oil and has the consistency of old coffee. MoDOT uses this all natural product to save money and to keep the roadways safe.
[O]nce temperatures drop below [...]
C.W. Gusewelle Spins Fanciful, 36-year-old Coal Mining Yarn About Place He Totally Made Up
Posted in C.W. Gusewelle, Environment, Local Journalism, Star on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prolix Star columnist and reliable source of folksy imagery C.W. Gusewelle took Kansas City by storm yesterday with his latest column, which, as always, is a simply delightful mix of purple prose and down-home sensibility. This time C-dub sets his sights squarely on the Bush administration’s coal policy, which does not meet with the good [...]
