Stealing Time: Miscreant, Alonzo, Cashilll, ESPN

By JUSTIN KENDALL

Last week, Midtown Miscreant called out self-appointed crime fighter Alonzo Washington for ripping on a crime victim’s family who refused his help. Washington fires back at MM with a childish rant. A sample treat: “Hey Mark, I think you are gay,” Washington writes. “Why would any straight man be so concerned with another man like you are with me? So, keep reading my blog and know you will die a ugly old White guy who has never done anything as great as I have!” Real classy, Alonzo.

ESPN ditched an ad campaign stereotyping the fans of college basketball’s best. Like, you know, Tennessee is a “slutty” “party girl” with a tramp stamp of “Pantone 3 for that Tennessee orange.” Whitney Mathews has the details, though KU gets off easy with the high-tech farm boy. But don’t get her started on North Carolina.

Arrowhead Addict suggests a few games to tolerate the rest of the Chiefs season. My favorite: Arrowhead Survivor. “You and your buddy simply show up to Arrowhead with no food. Nothing. Nada. No money either. Nothing but lint and a ticket. And since you haven’t eaten in 24 hours, you’ve got a hunger burnin’ like the fire of Moses. Park the car near the biggest group of weenie roastin’ tailgaters you can find and separate. Meet at your seats in two hours. That’s it, nothing more. Don’t worry you will both know the winner though I’ve never seen anything but a tie. Never lost a game yet. Never won one either.”

State of the Line declares blossoming conspiracy theorist Jack Cashill “the worst conservative writer/thinker of his generation.”This is a man who is out of ideas,” O’Neil from State of the Line writes. “This is a man who, depleted of intellectual capacity and irretrievably immersed in reactionary culture, has nothing original left to contribute. All he can do is recycle his sad, tired themes and complain a bit more about a supposed liberal bias pervading the pages of papers owned by monolithic, overwhelmingly GOP-leaning corporations.”

Speaking of the liberals on Grand, BlogKC wonders why the Kansas City Star didn’t cover the local Prop 8 protest. “The Star only ran an AP piece, and didn’t even bother to insert a sentance [sic] mentioning the local event.”

Finally, Meesha lists the local bloggers who should take the Star’s $75 a column and write for Midwest Voices. Good picks.