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 »
KCK Archbishop Naumann Still Not Quite Grasping Message Of This ‘Jesus’ Character
Posted in Economics, Politics, Religion, tagged Joseph Naumann, KCK Archdiocese, Maine, Same-Sex Marriage on December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Remember last month when voters in Maine dealt a pretty decisive knockout blow to same-sex marriage in that state? Yeah, that was depressing. But it turns out we can thank our own local spiritual guides for that result: Joseph Naumann, archbishop of the Kansas City, Kan., archdiocese and stern politician-warner, sent $10,000 to the effort. [...]
‘And Upon This Cadillac I Shall Build My Church’: Young Catholics Bring Proud Roman Tradition, Sweet Rides To KC
Posted in Economics, Religion, Transportation, tagged National Catholic Youth Conference, KC Conventions, Economic Stimulus, Lowriders on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend sees the staging of the National Catholic Youth Conference here in Kansas City, in which 21,000 young Benedict fans will gather in our fair city to pray, party, and honor J.C. by hanging out in the Purple People Eater. The name of their area in Bartle Hall? The “Reign Forest.” Actually… that’s kind [...]
P&L Dress Code Now Counts The Lord Among Its Foes
Posted in Controversy, Power & Light, Religion, tagged Dress Codes, Power and Light, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The dress code at the STD-fest known as the Power And/Or Light District has been a reliable source of controversy since its inception. The protocol — which appears to keep out anyone with a slightly dark shade of skin, while mystifyingly allowing every kind of Affliction shirt ever made — counts local politicians and movers [...]
Star Blogger Danette Gamble Comes Down Hard On Hasan, Logic, And Isla– Er, ‘Terrorism’
Posted in Controversy, Religion, So-called Journalism, Star, tagged Danette Gamble, Hasan, Hypocrisy on November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So you know how the Star has that “Reader Advisory Panel” that serves as a kind of watchdog/tribune/voice of dissent for the paper? Well, Danette Gamble would like to use her role in that capacity to discuss the Fort Hood shooter. But hey, before you go accusing her of hating Islam, just remember that she’s [...]
Scott Roeder: A Few Graduate Seminars Short Of Expertise In Aristotelian Logic, Understanding Of Own Faith
Posted in Abortion, Controversy, KC Crime, Local Journalism, Religion, tagged Christianity, Crazy Ideas, Homicide, Scott Roeder on November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Are you familiar with the foundations of logic? No, we don’t mean advanced Wittgenstein studies — we mean the basic framework of syllogisms, deductive reasoning, etc. Of course you are; much of that is ingrained in human nature. Well, you know who could use a crash course? Vigilante killer Scott Roeder, who fails almost every [...]
Today In Curmudgeonry: Leave Catholics Alone, MoDo!
Posted in Local Journalism, Religion, Star, Unfettered Letters, tagged Benedict XVI, Unfettered Letters, Maureen Dowd, Local Opinion on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a daily look at the pulse of Kansas City through the finest prism of local opinion: the Star’s letters section. Hey, don’t you just hate it when noted DC liberal Maureen Dowd rains on the parades of local Catholics? And isn’t it even worse when she’s… um, completely right?
Kansas Liberty Columnist Exposes Seemingly Innocuous Kansas ERA Effort As Covert Pro-Abortion Operation
Posted in Abortion, Local Journalism, Politics, Religion, So-called Journalism on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Conservatives have always held a special grudge against the Equal Rights Amendment for reasons we’ll never entirely understand, though we’re certain it is not because of a very misguided and faith-based view of gender equality. You may have heard that local forces are trying to amend the Kansas constitution with a scale model of the [...]
Star Spotlights Heretofore Unseen Sports/God Combo
Posted in Local Journalism, Religion, Sports, Star on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As part of the mainstream media’s effort to somehow fill the news void left by the NFL’s off-week, the Star today brings us a special feature on the role of faith in modern American football. Because, you see, this is news: evidently the Star thinks most of us have simply never noticed the endless god-praising [...]
Phill Kline’s Blog A Study In Self-Aggrandizement
Posted in Abortion, Local blogs, Phill Kline, Politics, Religion on January 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Via our friend Justin over at the Pitch comes a pure gold mine of inadvertent hilarity: the official blog of His Holiness Philllll Kline. The recently departed scourge of pro-choicers everywhere will not go gently into that good night, no sir. He will continue to shout his pro-life mantra from the rooftops, imploring sinners of [...]
