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• This is a City Ethics Code?

  City ethics code? Are you freaking kidding me? Reportedly, this week, our own city hall adopted what they're calling an ethics code: New ethics code, approved... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 SOCIETY

• Dammit

  

  Some people should get a pass and be allowed to live forever. Harvey Korman was one of them. Comic actor Harvey Korman dies at 81 Rest in peace, Mr. Korman. We... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 SOCIETY

• Lucky You, Kansas

  

  Republicans in the Kansas Legislature have flushed $330,000 down the drain fighting about how best to raise taxes on working Kansans. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 SOCIETY

• Lucky You, Kansas

  

  Republicans in the Kansas Legislature have flushed $330,000 down the drain fighting about how best to raise taxes on working Kansans. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Missouri on List of "10 States Most at Risk for Major Disaster"

  

  And while the bad news is Missouri is on this list, if there's good news, it is that we're ranked in last place: 10 States Most At Risk For Major Disasters... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 SOCIETY

• You're Blowing Kansas Cash, Gov. Brownback and We're Not Talking a Lottery Here

  

  From Kansas Representative Paul Davis on his Facebook page today--a link to an article from the Wichita Eagle newspaper about their statehouse budget/tax mess:... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Republicans "unserious About Governing"?

  There is a terrific article out today at the Washington Post blog, saying just that about the current Republican Party today: Today's GOP is fundamentally... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Explaining How and Why the Middle- and Lower-classes Vote Against Their Own, Bes...

  In accordance with the prevailing conceptions, there is no infringement of democracy if a few corporations control the information system: in fact, that is the... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 SOCIETY

• If You Aren't Angry--or Involved--you Aren't Paying Attention

  Statistics on the economic state of too many Americans: A report released early this year by the organization Oxfam International revealed that the combined... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Kansas City on "Best BBQ" List

  

  As we should be, Kansas City is all over a list out last evening on Yahoo! News about the nation's "Best and Worst Barbecue": Ultimate BBQ Sauce Taste Test | Th... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Here's Memorial Day

  If you missed last evening's program on KCPT's PBS "American Experience, "War Letters", you owe it to yourself to do so. It is one of the most moving,... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 SOCIETY

• On Memorial Day. And War

  

  "War is not – as most people assume – a good and laudable affair, but like all murder, it is a vile and criminal business not only for those who voluntarily... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Republican Examples for How to Legislate--for Kansas

  I saw the other day how very Right Wing and Republican Arizona Governor Jan Brewer--you remember her, the one who had the nerve to publicly scold President Obam... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Memorial Day, 2013

  

  Metal Memorials “Hey, man, just so you know, I’m going to set this thing off.” I don’t have a metal plate in my head or shrapnel in my legs, but I carry with... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 SOCIETY

• On the Train Wreck That is the Kansas State Legislature Right Now

  Now Kansas Governor Brownback's own Secretary of Corrections is offering up proof of the insanity of the state's budget cuts: Proposed cuts to corrections syste... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Kansas, a National Laughingstock

  

  Yes, Kansas is getting laughed at yet more in the media today and sadly but rightly so: Jeff Melcher Really Worried That Grocery-Tax Cut Means People Will... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Framing the National Economic Debate

  Economist, columnist Robert Reich gets it right and spells it out for us all: Links: Robert Reich Robert Reich - Wikipedia Robert Reich | Facebook Robert Reich ... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Before Memorial Day, the First Decoration Day

  

  Slaves Started Memorial Day "For two weeks in April, former slaves had worked to bury the soldiers. Now they would give them a proper funeral.The procession... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Cape Girardeau Train Wreck This Morning

  

  Seven injured in Missouri as trains collide, trigger highway bridge collapse Two freight trains collided and derailed early Saturday in southeast Missouri,... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day--on Cynics, Cynicism, Life and Progress

  

  “Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 SOCIETY