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• 2013: The Year for Sports in the Kansas City Metro?

  

  First, the Royals seem very real this year: Is it time to take the Royals seriously as contenders? Kansas City Royals: A Good Week, Or A Good Year? Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day--on Cynicism

  

  "...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 wisdom, but... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 SOCIETY

• The US Debt is Where Now??

  

  Important breaking national, economic and financial news today: US Debt Hits A 6-Year Low - Business Insider From the article: Bloomberg reporter John Detrixhe... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Check out the Center of This Map

  , the center of the US, our country, right about where Kansas City would be/is: It comes from this article: Hate heat map shows where racist, homophobic tweets... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 SOCIETY

• An Open Letter to Mayor James, on the Airport

  An open letter to Mayor James today on news that he's setting up a committee to examine what should happen to and at and with the airport: KCTV5: Mayor... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 SOCIETY

• On Individuals, Individuality and Government

  "Society does not want individuals who are alert, keen, revolutionary, because such individuals will not fit into the established social pattern and they may... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Kudos to the Star Today, on the Airport

  

  Kudos and salutations to the Kansas City Star today, for printing an article that goes against their own, earlier editorial on our airport: Airport terminal... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Unemployment Statistics in America and Why We Need a Jobs Bill from Congress

  

  Youth Unemployment in the United States The unemployment rate for those between the ages of 16-24 was 16.2% in April, more than double the national... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Well, Knock Me Over with a feather--Kansas Does Something for the Poor

  

  I read it in the Kansas City Star today and could hardly believe it: New Kansas law helps poor people caught in traffic-fine trap What the what? The Kansas,... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Another Star Reader/writer Gets It Right About Our Airport

  This was in the Kansas City Star in a letter to the Editor today: Screwy KCI logic The Kansas City Star editorial board has reached new heights (or plumbed new... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2013 SOCIETY

• On the World Seeming to Fall Apart (guest Post)

  Technology and the Intelligence of Nature - The Ecologist (Bolding and italics added for emphasis) Environmentalists and concerned citizens are increasingly... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Education on Public Employee Spending

  

  Check out what position, by state, is the highest paid position for publicly-paid employees: More of our priorities. This time, by state as well as the entire... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 SOCIETY

• 2nd "Most Redneck City"? That Hurts

  

  Holy cow. I would have thought we were bad, sure, and I think "redneck" permeates lots and lots of America but Kansas City, 2nd most redneck city in the... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 SOCIETY

• New, Far Higher Levels of Stupidity out of Missouri Yesterday

  Holy cow, Missouri. What in the world are you doing? Trying to "out-dumb" Kansas. Check out the latest, y'all: Missouri Lawmakers Pass 'Hard- Core' Gun Bill In... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day--on Life and "today"

  "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 SOCIETY

• The Star Comes out Wrong on the Airport

  The Kansas City Star published an editorial piece yesterday on our airport and why a single, new terminal is a good idea. They only made 2 claims and as it turn... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Things Americans Need to Know About Our Economy (guest Post)

  Things we Americans need to know, now, both about our past and current situation and what we could and should do. From The New York Times today: The Chutzpah... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Kurt Vonnegut on Writing, America and Guns

  

  Author Kurt Vonnegut on his book, "Breakfast of Champions." Particularly poignant today as the NRA has their annual gunfest convention in Houston: "I had... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Today in Missouri History

  May 3, 1948 - 65 years-ago today, this building at 4600 Labadie became the house that changed America. Between 1910 and 1940, the non-white population of St.... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 SOCIETY

• Let's Be clear--"Obamacare" Isn't What's Causing Companies to Fire Full-timers

  There is a "meme" or thought--and exceptionally sick or lazy one, at that--going on right now that the Affordable Care Act--"Obamacare"--is what's causing... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 SOCIETY