This is a post-holiday weekend column. Lower your expectations if that is possible.
Kansas City police and public officials were seen on local news recently, extolling the lower murder rate so far this year and just like that someone got shot dead in Westport on Saturday night. Five others were also shot.
I feel like low murder rates should be treated like baseball no-hitters. Don’t say a damn word, until the year is over. Just shut up and don’t jinx someone dead. But I also don’t step on cracks in fear of breaking my mother’s back, so you do you.
Saw a lady named Freedom Ray Butts was arrested last week. I’m not making this up. Buchanan County arrests and bookings said Freedom got arrested for an outstanding warrant.
The website was unclear if she had to drop the name “Freedom” going forward, but it seems contradictory to call a prisoner Freedom.
Would kind of like to meet Freedom’s parents. You got to have a little moxie to name your daughter “Freedom Ray.”
The Kansas City Star wrote an absolute “puff” piece this weekend on a David Hosier, who is set to be executed in June. It took nearly five paragraphs into the article for the Star to even mention that Hosier killed a woman and her husband. A woman that he had an affair with.
Before they got to the fact that he cold blooded murdered two people, they talked about his current situation of being in a wheelchair, that he was a veteran of the armed services and that he had heart failure and once worked as a firefighter.
It is just laughable how far journalism has slid in the last ten or twenty years. This was sold as a news article and not an opinion piece, but it just dripped opinion throughout the article and revealed the continued effort that Star has put into pushing a liberal agenda against the death penalty, among other things.
Man, I’m a real downer coming out of a holiday. Gotta get it together. Let’s discuss Chiefs. I have made my first too early prediction. Two beers in on Friday, I went through the schedule and had them at 11-6 for the regular season. At five beers, I had them at 12 wins. If I get a 12 pack in me, they might go undefeated, but bet your own conscience.
Quite honestly, I feel kind of left out of the Chiefs’ fandom party this off-season. I don’t really have an opinion on Taylor Swift, Harrison Butker or Rashee Rice and that makes me part of some odd minority grouping of sane people that don’t worry about what celebrities do or think. Not going to lie though, if they had had a music fest/car show, I’d probably attend just to hear Butker speak.
57 days till training camp begins. Can anyone give Rashee a ride?
(Guy Speckman cannot be reached post-holiday column week)
