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Archives: August 2010
Letters from the week of August 19
Shut Yer’ Foxhole: August 5 Love for Larry The “cartoon” by Travis Fox concerning Larry Schnackenberg was the most vile and inappropriate thing I have ever seen printed in your paper. I don’t know him or his family, but OMG, are you trying to get a cheap laugh or just crucify his family? Put words in his mouth? Shameful. Innuendo…
When Westport gets wild, security guards ban the unruly, but critics say the blackballing goes too far
It’s a tossup whether the bathroom walls or the patrons sport more ink at Buzzard Beach. On weekend nights, the Westport bar is a hive of beer-sloshing partiers with fashionably mussed hair and stepped-on shoes, all part of a meticulously cultivated posture of not giving a fuck. When someone does give a fuck, it typically follows several hours of drinking…
Police shoot, kill knife-wielding man holding hostage
Knife-wielding people, here’s a tip. If you come into contact with the cops and you threaten them or someone else, you’re going to get shot. Kansas City, Kansas, cops shot a man armed with a knife who was holding someone hostage in a barricaded basement in the 3400 block of North 63rd Street around 12:12 p.m. yesterday. The cops figured…
Roy Blunt denounces Ground Zero(ish) mosque, while Robin Carnahan manages to avoid the topic (update)
%{}% Update (4:40 p.m.): Robin Carnahan did answer questions about the mosque today. Update below the original post. Original post (2 p.m.): In this era of reading and riding the tea leaves, it was only a matter of time before heartland politicians were asked where they stand on the “Ground Zero Mosque,” the Muslim community and worship center planned for…
Little Debbie kicks Mrs. Freshley’s ass
Who the hell is this upstart Mrs. Freshley, anyway? Since Georgia-based Flower Foods introduced the snack-cake line in 1994, Mrs. Freshley — sold in dollar stores and vending machines around the country — has been trying to steal the crown from the undisputed queen of snack land, the iconic and adorable Little Debbie. Little Deb, who turned 50 this year, still looks…
Missouri inmate threatens to kill Barack Obama, gets to spend 30 more months in prison
We all need a little attention sometimes. But seeking attention by threatening to kill the President of the United States — especially when you’re already in prison — just isn’t constructive. We’re looking at you, Josh R. McCallum. McCallum, 33, is serving a 12-year prison sentence at the Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green, Missouri, for two counts of first-degree…
KCPD detective Josette Young arrested for DUI after wrecking unmarked cop car, puking
If TV isn’t lying to me, Internal Affairs isn’t the most popular department on the force. So Kansas City Internal Affairs detective Josette R. Young’s arrest for wrecking an unmarked police car and driving under the influence last weekend isn’t going to endear her to her colleagues. A witness saw Young driving northbound on U.S. 169 Highway in a 2002…
New study suggests connection between drinking beer and psoriasis in women
It’s a cliche that women drink light beer. But new research suggests there may be a compelling reason for women to consider what kind of beer they’re drinking. Female beer drinkers may be at a higher risk for psoriasis, according to a new study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The researchers found that women who had…
The Blue Fin is finito
Bye, bye, chef Pi? At the beginning of this year, there were two Asian-fusion restaurants operating on 135th Street in Johnson County — Tannah’s in Leawood and Blue Fin Asian Fusion in Overland Park. Now they’re both closed. Blue Fin is the more recent casualty. The restaurant’s blue sign still glows at night, but the phone number has been disconnected….
Brian Nieves and supporters pray to defeat Missouri’s ‘kingmakers and the powerbrokers’
%{}% The crazy keeps coming from state Rep. Brian Nieves. In an only-in-Missouri moment, his supporters held a “prayer vigil” for the allegedly angry-blooded Republican. Nieves isn’t blaming demonic possession (although the KC Blue Blog thinks Nieves may need an exorcism); he blames shadowy, unnamed “kingmakers and the powerbrokers in the state of Missouri” as those trying to torpedo his…
Burnt ends get some national love on Serious Eats
It’s been 10 years since the burnt-ends sandwich at Gates first passed through my lips. I can still remember the initial smoky and salty bite. I put my sandwich down, looked at my brother-in-law and smiled. Now this is barbecue, I remember thinking. And since then I’ve discovered I’m not the only one to fall under the spell of burnt…
Ex-Phill Kline hatchet man Eric Rucker gets slap on the wrist
Kansas is still dealing with the fallout of Phill Kline’s tumultuous tenure as attorney general. Yesterday, the state’s disciplinary board for attorney’s slapped the wrist of Kline’s former chief of staff and hatchet man, Eric Rucker. The board recommended censure, an “informal admonition,” and a sharp tongue-lashing for Rucker’s role in misleading the Kansas Supreme Court during the investigation of…
Sarah Palin coming to Kansas City for pro-life benefit dinner
Lock up your logic, liberals: Sarah Palin is coming to Kansas City next month to raise money for a pro-life foundation, and to raise even more money for herself. The Vitae Caring Foundation, a Jeff City based pro-life group, has scored Palin for its annual Kansas City fundraising dinner, to be held at the Kansas City Convention Center on Monday,…
Freak out: the soundtrack
Imaginary Movie Soundtracks are just that — the soundtracks to movies that doesn’t exist. We pick the songs, write the story, and your mind makes the movie. Our protagonist isn’t quite right. She was fired from her (admittedly unpleasant) job for taking a few liberties on her lunch breaks. (Those liberties may or may not have included driving home and…
When fortune cookies attack
Good luck? Bad luck? A worthless slip of paper? If this story hadn’t actually happened to me, I’m not sure I would believe it myself. But the sequence of events was so horrible, it remains indelibly burned in my memory. And it all started with a fortune cookie. It was a Friday the 13th in the late 1980s. I…
One night in Westport slideshow (NSFW, sort of)
Walk, or stumble, into Westport on any given night and you’re sure to see an unadulterated shitshowery. It’s a rule older than the 150-year-old neighborhood: that much liquor with that many people and hormones? You’re bound to see something worthy of an epic morning-after story. Businesses and security guards have rallied together in an effort to keep the neighborhood safe….
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