Uttering the name “Don Denkinger” in the state of Missouri will always elicit cheers. However, depending on which side of...
Read moreIt’s been a year. Everything is different. Different address. Different environment. Different. Everything has changed except the basics, and even...
Read moreIt's happened. The full evolution from kid who listened to Rush Limbaugh in the UMKC parking lot to grown man...
Read moreBaseball season has ended, and the *checks notes* Texas Rangers are World Series Champions. It seems like millennia since the...
Read moreI've written in the past in this space about signs and messages on products and how they probably have some...
Read moreSomething stinks in Jeff City and it smells worse than a football team locker room. But the plus side is...
Read moreFrom the makers of Pizzagate and “The NFL is rigged” comes the latest tinfoil conspiracy theories -- and you're going...
Read moreAs a rite of passage last week, as my son turned 21, I took him out for a night at...
Read moreThe year was 1984. Kansas City and Arrowhead stadium were the center of the entertainment world. Mary Hart and John...
Read moreWhat a bunch of morons. No, I'm not talking about your cousin's ill-fated attempt at building a homemade rocket or...
Read moreThe year was 1990. It was my first week at college in Columbia, Missouri, and my roommate and I set...
Read moreAcross the region you can hear the piercing tones of the school bell break through the summer wind. Or that...
Read morePicture yourself in a boat on a river / with tangerine trees and marmalade skies.Somebody calls you / you answer...
Read moreIt's back to school season which, apparently, starts around the Fourth of July now. Nevertheless, kiddos are grabbing their pencils...
Read moreLast week, violent winds, golf ball sized hail, and torrential rains swept across a city desperate to see any sort...
Read moreThis is a story about a farm with a cock problem. Since they were cockerel's there have always been two...
Read moreAnother week has passed and yet another rich stupid person is in the news for being rich and stupid. We...
Read moreAnother week has passed and yet another rich stupid person is in the news for being rich and stupid. We...
Read moreThose of you who have followed this space for any length of time, certainly know that my life is lived...
Read moreThere was a grocery store down the street from where I grew up called Bob's IGA. Inside of that store...
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