Feature: "The Cheapskate Edition," January 17
Thank you for including an article on my friend Larry Roth in your Cheapskate Edition, and for Justin Kendall's understanding that this is more than just frugal gamesmanship. People really depend on the savings that coupons and promotions can add to their shopping. Neither Mr. Roth nor any reasonable customer should have to explain what a coupon clearly states, just as cash-register employees should have an understanding of the terms used in sales. Items offered at discount should be in stock, sufficient to meet at least the expected surge of the first days of sale. My first job as a grocery-store clerk was across the street from a retirement home, and I learned the value of wise shopping from the examples of these fixed-income people. Thank you for highlighting the craft of one eccentric genius who makes shopping a little cheaper for all of us.
James Miller, Kansas City, Missouri
How quickly one forgets. Just a few years after The Pitch moves from Westport, the Best of Kansas City happy hour that its employees once enjoyed is now forgotten. In Lorna Perry's "Buzz on a Budget," the Buzzard Beach's incredible happy hour got passed over like the Chiefs' '07 secondary. It offers 12-ounce domestic draws at 75 cents and 12-ounce wells at $2, from open until 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and from open until 7 p.m. on Saturday. These prices haven't changed in more than 23 years. Add that to our Ladies' Night (same low happy-hour prices for women every Thursday night until midnight) and Wednesday night's extended happy-hour prices on draws until midnight, and your "buzz" can't be acquired for less. That is, unless you like PBR, in which case the draws are 75 cents on Sunday from 8 p.m. to midnight. In fact, Buzzard Beach has been selling happy-hour draws for 75 cents since around the inception of The Pitch, back in the early '80s. The leg warmers and Members Only jackets are long gone, but the 75-cent draws are here to stay.
Mike Heili, Kansas City Missouri
Music: "Need More Pop," January 17
Richard Gintowt wrote a greatly needed article on Needmore Discs. Thanks, Pitch. This store rules. They found me the new Down album, Over the Under, which no one else seems to have, even online. They kept checking on it for me for almost four months! They also ordered me the new Type O Negative triple-vinyl boxed set. They have very fair prices, a friendly and knowledgeable staff, and an awesome used and new selection of vinyl, CDs, DVDs, boxed sets, and imports. It's worth the drive for me, coming from Independence, and sure beats waiting for Internet orders to come in the mail. Keep up the good work, and please support your local stores. Go buy an album and cherish the entire package, not just an iPod graphic!
Elliott Henry, Independence
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Ventilation. Nothing more, nothing less. Take a moment now, if you will, and put yourself behind the wheel of your favorite car. Does not matter the model or make or color. Just imagine you are a motorist trafficking along your daily route to who know's where. Okay, you are doing your best, within reason, to obey the many and various traffic laws that you know all too well that you could be punished for by breaking one of them. You maintain a legal speed, you use your turn signal accordingly, you refrain from tailgating and all that jazz that classifies you as a safe and legal driver. A few miles down the road and in to your trip a police officer enters the highway and begins to drive near you. No big deal. You are obeying the laws, all of them. He has no interest in pulling you over and ticketing you. Wait a minute...the police officer is speeding up. He has not turned on his emergency lights but now he seems to be doing at least fifteen miles per hour over the legal speed limit. Hang on a second...he just changed lanes without properly using his turn signal. Wow, he just cut off another motorist and is now tailgating a third and wouldn't you just know it, he is on his cell phone too. Sure hope an emergency call does not come across his radio, he seems too distracted to gather and process any information he may recieve from one of those. Yeah this whole picture seems off, doesn't it? How can someone sworn to uphold the law and hold other citizens accountable for those laws act in such an irresponsible way? What kind of example is this police officer, and other police officers across the metropolitan area, and likely police officers nationwide, what example are they showing us? It is a rather notable double standard that they, simply by wearing a shiny badge and driving a squad car, are setting. Remember, police officers are not above the law, they are representatives of the law. They are responsible for the law, meaning they are not to break it. It may not be such a grand step from a police officer exceeding the speed limit to them using a taser on a pregnant woman or a college student who asks a pressing question to a politician. It is time for those who a sworn to protect the law of the land to obey the law of the land. It starts with civil vigilance and taking the responsibility of society to keep in check those who have the job to keep us in check. Whenever possible we the people must report these crimes, petty as they may be. We must keep the lawmen and women in check by holding them to the same standards in which they hold us. Why should it cost a regular citizen $200 for a speeding ticket and this servant of the law nothing? On duty or not, dangerous driving can be done by anyone. A police officer can just as easily cause an accident by disregarding the laws as any other human being behind the wheel. Ventilation accomplished. Thanks for listening. Go about your day now. But please, watch out for the law breaking lawmen.
Ventilation. Nothing more, nothing less. Take a moment now, if you will, and put yourself behind the wheel of your favorite car. Does not matter the model or make or color. Just imagine you are a motorist trafficking along your daily route to who know's where. Okay, you are doing your best, within reason, to obey the many and various traffic laws that you know all too well that you could be punished for by breaking one of them. You maintain a legal speed, you use your turn signal accordingly, you refrain from tailgating and all that jazz that classifies you as a safe and legal driver. A few miles down the road and in to your trip a police officer enters the highway and begins to drive near you. No big deal. You are obeying the laws, all of them. He has no interest in pulling you over and ticketing you. Wait a minute...the police officer is speeding up. He has not turned on his emergency lights but now he seems to be doing at least fifteen miles per hour over the legal speed limit. Hang on a second...he just changed lanes without properly using his turn signal. Wow, he just cut off another motorist and is now tailgating a third and wouldn't you just know it, he is on his cell phone too. Sure hope an emergency call does not come across his radio, he seems too distracted to gather and process any information he may recieve from one of those. Yeah this whole picture seems off, doesn't it? How can someone sworn to uphold the law and hold other citizens accountable for those laws act in such an irresponsible way? What kind of example is this police officer, and other police officers across the metropolitan area, and likely police officers nationwide, what example are they showing us? It is a rather notable double standard that they, simply by wearing a shiny badge and driving a squad car, are setting. Remember, police officers are not above the law, they are representatives of the law. They are responsible for the law, meaning they are not to break it. It may not be such a grand step from a police officer exceeding the speed limit to them using a taser on a pregnant woman or a college student who asks a pressing question to a politician. It is time for those who a sworn to protect the law of the land to obey the law of the land. It starts with civil vigilance and taking the responsibility of society to keep in check those who have the job to keep us in check. Whenever possible we the people must report these crimes, petty as they may be. We must keep the lawmen and women in check by holding them to the same standards in which they hold us. Why should it cost a regular citizen $200 for a speeding ticket and this servant of the law nothing? On duty or not, dangerous driving can be done by anyone. A police officer can just as easily cause an accident by disregarding the laws as any other human being behind the wheel. Ventilation accomplished. Thanks for listening. Go about your day now. But please, watch out for the law breaking lawmen.
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