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• We Do Elections Very, Very Wrong, America

  

  Sure, we Americans do and have done a lot of things right and well, absolutely or we wouldn't have gotten where we have, socially, sociologically and certainly... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2016 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day -- On This Day, 1938

  

  True then, a lesson for us, still. "The first truth is that the liberty of a Democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2016 SOCIETY

• This Is How Huge and Obscene Big Money Is In Our Politics

  To show how really awful and insidious the big money is in our politics, political system and government, check this out: Rep. Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2016 SOCIETY

• News Flash to City Fathers

  This, breaking today from the NCAA: NCAA vote: No Final Fours in cities without anti-discrimination laws The NCAA's Board of Governors implemented a new... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Congress, of All Groups, in the Way of Shrinking Government Spending

  This news just hit today: The Pentagon is once again asking Congress to let it close military bases, and Congress is once again expected to say no A Washington... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Another--Big---Reason We Should Lift the Cap On Social Security

  It's commonly known there is a cap on earnings for paying in on Social Security. If you're wealthy and making $118,500 per year or more, you don't get taxed on... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day -- Sunday Edition

  “Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Kansas' Governor Brownback Finally Gets At Least One Thing Right

  I can't think of one thing--not one--Kansas Governor Sam Brownback or his Republican cohorts have gotten right in that state in the last several years. Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Kansas City Takes 2 Hits

  Yes sir, it seems our Kansas City area takes two hits today, in the media, with an article just out. The 30 places in the U.S. where you're most likely to be... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Congratulations, Kansas City!!

  Yes sir!! Congratulations, Kansas City and Kansas Citians!! You passed the 1% Earnings Tax yet one more time!! Two big winners, three colossal losers in Kansas... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Kansas City's History. And Racism

  Kansas City's History. And Racism What's fascinating is that, in spite of Kansas City's long and deeply held racism, which gave us the segregation of races whic... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2016 SOCIETY

• What Does Rex Sinquefield Gain By Messing With Kansas City?

  

  So once again, rich, billionaire, St. Louisan Rex Sinquefield tries yet one more time to have Kansas Cititans vote on and, for him, hopefully do away with our 1... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2016 SOCIETY

• Missouri Figures Prominently In First Supreme Court Deadlock

  

  So the first voting deadlock since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death from the now 8-member US Supreme Court comes straight out of a case that began... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2016 SOCIETY

• On These Coming Summer Olympics?

  

  I wrote earlier about this year's coming Summer Olympics: This Year's Coming Summer Olympics Between their pollution and the Zika virus, I felt sure these... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2016 SOCIETY

• Kansas City on the Zika List

  

  An article came out this past week listing 50 cities in America that may well become exposed to the Zika virus and guess who's on it? Potential Zika virus risk... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2016 SOCIETY

• Sexist, Republican Missouri Representative

  

  Breaking news today tells of a certain Republican legislator from Missouri who, besides being deep in the pockets of the banking industry, is also a rabid sexis... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2016 SOCIETY

• Entertainment Overnight -- Classical Guitar

  

  I was fortunate enough to go to high school with this classical guitarist. He lived, in fact, only about 2 blocks from our own house. He, Anthony Glise, of St. Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2016 SOCIETY

• Republicans? "Small Government"?

  

  Kansas Republicans in general but Kansas Republican Governor Sam Brownback, too, more specifically, keep proving, time and again, that Republicans in Kansas... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2016 SOCIETY

• On This Day, 1965

  

  Jon S. Randal (from FB)March 9, 2014 · He was a white minister. Some said he didn't have to go, he had a good life in Boston, he had a loving wife and... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2016 SOCIETY

• Entertainment Overnight -- Sweet Dreams

  

  Indeed, sweet dreams on this, the anniversary of Patsy Cline's untimely death. There was a local connection, too. Patsy Cline: March 5 Marks 53rd Anniversary... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2016 SOCIETY