Nutt-To-KU Rumor Creates Star Comment Punapalooza

Say, have you heard that Ole Miss football coach Houston Nutt might be KU’s next football coach? The local media has, even though the Sun Herald — representing something called “Biloxi-Gulfport and South Mississippi” refutes the story. Homers! In any event, the story is a gift for those most talented of local jokemakers: Star commenters. [...]

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McClanahan Joins Chorus Of Jingoism Emanating From Star

We all knew that the Star’s editorial overlords would take on the subject of Obama’s speech last night. What no one realized is that the paper’s Midwest Voices blog had become the repository of the kind of faux-patriotic rah-rah’ing that got us into this mess to begin with. It was just yesterday that Tom Ryan [...]

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The Star writes a perfectly reasonable editorial about the Berlin Wall falling. Conservative commenters are quick to display their mental prowess. From “Michael Kobe”: The one name missing in the editorial is Ronald Reagon, who demanded the wall come down. Indeed.

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Rich, White Star Commenter Would Like You To Know That Minorities, Poor Aren’t Good For Anything These Days

So you may have heard that the city’s homeless residents were counted today — because we’d really like to have a firm number of how many of our fellow citizens we cast out into the cold. But you’ll find no sympathy for these transient gents from Star commenter “DownTownMan,” who hits pretty much every stereotype [...]

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Star Reader Compares Mayor-Council Spat To Domestic Abuse, Makes Entire City Shift Uncomfortably In Chairs

The ongoing rift between Mayor Funkhouser and the City Council has been likened to many things, including Shakespearean drama and a dysfunctional corporate relationship. And sure, those are normal comparisons — there is something classic and tragic about the spat that makes you want to seek higher analogies. But we have to say that Fred [...]

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Debra Sapp-Yarwood Responds To Criticism Of Ridiculous Column, Only Digs Herself A Deeper Rhetorical Hole

Remember a few hours ago when we all spent a fun-filled few minutes exploring Depra Sapp-Yarwood’s wonderful world of Sino-hatred? Those were good times. If only she were to provide us with a little more grist for the mill, you know? Like what if she were to respond to negative comments left on the site [...]

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Police are still trying to figure out exactly what happened with that ride-by-shooting the other night. You know, the one that had Star commenters trying out their comedy routines? Sample line: Do you think the bike might have been stolen? At least it was “green”. Should make the tree huggers all warm and fuzzy. Hey-o!

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Star Ignorant Comment of the Day: Ha Ha, Sexism Is Funny!

Today’s brilliant and insightful Star comment comes from the story of the woman who ran over a man — um, twice — and has been charged with assault, among other things. Now, this story contains two tantalizing angles for those inclined to makes sexist jokes: females and the operation of motor vehicles. And sure enough, [...]

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Star Commenters Inadvertently Prove Letter Writer’s Point

We like to peruse the Star’s Unfettered Letters blog — and not just because “unfettered” is such an awesome word — in order to see which winds are guiding the prevailing opinion of Kansas City. The best way to gauge the way the city is thinking about certain things is to let your eyes feast upon [...]

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Star Ignorant Comment of the Day: ‘Mainstream_Coalition’ Just Keeps Getting Funnier

So someone sent an envelope with powder to KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. (Or as we call her, “K-Seb.”) Kind of a serious matter, what with the anthrax attacks and letters to other governors in recent days. But rack your brain for a moment: what’s the most obvious joke you could make about powder? Cocaine, of [...]

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