Sure, everyone’s making fun of and pillorying Sarah Palin and her recent bildungsroman. But she deflects all the criticisms of the media elite, remember? Bad news for her, then: the everyday voice of young, hip Kansas City is taking her down. So long, 2012.
Archive for the ‘Local blogs’ Category
Sarah Palin Finally Receives Much-Needed Comeuppance From Sage Voices Of Ink’s ‘Frink’ Panel
Posted in Ink, Literature, Local Journalism, Local blogs, Politics, tagged Sarah Palin, Frink Panel, Think Tanks on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mayor Funkhouser Kindly Asks City Manager Cauthen To Get The Hell Out Of The Building
Posted in Funkhouser, Local blogs, Politics, tagged Firings, Mark Funkhouser, Wayne Cauthen on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Thursday, Wayne Cauthen! Don’t you just love the sunshine? And hey, how about Zack getting the Cy? Great, huh? Hey, can you do me a favor? Think you can get the f out of City Hall by the end of the day? Kthxbye! Love, Mark. Um.
Posted in Local blogs, Mom 2 Mom, tagged Christianity, Mental Illness, Mom2Mom, Star Blogs on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Religion and mental illness combining to form an incendiary chat-explosion at Mom2Mom? Oh, yes.
Health Care Debate Tears Placid Mom2Mom World Asunder
Posted in Local blogs, Mom 2 Mom, Politics, tagged Health Care Reform, Mom2Mom, Star Blogs on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The national debate over health care reform (or what we like to think of as “preachy morality v. blind market devotion”) has driven a stake of argument down the centers of families the world over. Not since the Civil War, perhaps, have we seen former friends and colleagues angrily decamp for polar positions. And now [...]
Chief Corwin’s Blog Is Most Depressing Web Site Ever
Posted in KC Crime, Local blogs, Technology, tagged James Corwin, Depressing Blogs, Debbie Downer on November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Far be it from us to criticize another’s blog — after all, we’re just now trying to regain our footing after a nine-month absence — but have you checked out KCPD Chief James Corwin’s blog? Oh, man. Cue the Debbie Downer noise.
Posted in Local blogs on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We appreciate the nice things and the nicely honest things people are saying about us.
Health Care Debate Turns Scenic Downtown Shawnee Into Bemusing, Self-Congratulatory Shout-Fest
Posted in Local blogs, Politics, tagged Health Care, Protests, Shawnee KS on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Say what you will about its effects on thing like that pesky deficit of ours, but you simply must agree that the national health care debate has done wonders for comedy. From big-government automatons to paranoid teabaggers, this thing has it all. The latest forum? Our own western suburb of Shawnee — and there’s video [...]
Growing Ever More Desperate, The Star Erects A Pay Wall
Posted in Advertising, Economics, Local Journalism, Local blogs, Star, tagged Star, Pay Walls, Free Content, Questionable Decisions on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Local blogs, Music on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s must-read: our friend Joel’s running diary of last night’s Grammys. Excellent stuff.
