Subject: Derek Donovan

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  July 3, 2007

• George Tiller link round up for Wednesday

  Troy NewmanOperation Rescue president Troy Newman wrote an op-ed in USA Today, uh, today calling the assassination of George Tiller "vigilantism" that "must be abhorred" but so should aborting fetuses. Meanwhile, USA Today's editorial board calls for protection of abortion providers.Fox 4's Tess Koppelman asked an anti-abortion activist about the denunciations of Tiller's killing by anti-abortion groups like Operation Rescue. Here's the answer she got: "... she said that because they profit from

  June 3, 2009

• Star Readers' Rep Makes a Case for the Dulls

  July 1, 2008

• Star will run 'Obama wins' Doonesbury

  November 3, 2008

• Cooking with Daily Briefs

  November 12, 2008

• Stealing Time: Sexy Keith King protects sexy models from dune buggy selling photographer

  I'm moving S-L-O-W this morning. Thanks to bottle of wine, Shaun of the Dead and about three-and-a-half hours of sleep! That's my excuse. What's yours, Derek Donovan? The Star ombudsman misspelled Abu Ghraib -- he spelled it Abu Ghraid -- in this post about, uh, misspelling names. I've made the correction for Donovan following his handy dandy guide to correction writing: "An entry on Derek Donovan's blog on Nov. 26 misspelled Abu Ghraib." Feel free to use that, Derek. Not sure where my favorite

  November 26, 2008

• Stealing Time: Jack Cashill waiting for apology from the Star

  Conspiracy theorist Author Jack Cashill is demanding a public apology from The Kansas City Star's Derek Donovan, who called Cashill a liar. I have my own demand, Jack. Apologize to Barack Obama and William Ayers for your crackpot Ayers-wrote-Obama's-book yarn. While you're apologizing, throw in one for the Crap Archivist for writing 2006: The Chautauqua Rising.

  December 4, 2008

• Stealing Time: Troll calls Derek Donovan a douche

  It's hard out there for our buddy, Derek Donovan. The Kansas City Star's reader representative tries to explain why the daily dropped anonymous commenting from its Web site (a good move) and gets promptly called a douche bag. Guess the trolls still take their toll. Did you notice that Lewis Diuguid's column ended? News to me. Bottom Line points out that Diuguid doesn't sound happy about the death of his column. At least he still has a job.Midtown Miscreant reminds you why you should always have

  December 8, 2008

• Stealing Time: C.W. Gusewelle doesn't know how to e-mail!

  C.W. Gusewelle can breed bird dogs like a mother, but he can't e-mail? That's what I get out of Kansas City Star reader rep Derek Donovan's latest blog explaining why Gusewelle's e-mail address doesn't appear at the end of his columns. Double D never outright says it, but I get the feeling Gusewelle's computer skills haven't advanced past sending lame-ass forwards. D explains: "He writes on a freelance basis, so he doesn't have a kcstar.com account." Uh huh. Then Donovan says you can write Gusew

  December 15, 2008

• Donovan: Lokeman DUI arrest is news to us

  Photo from PBS.Rhonda Chriss LokemanKansas City Star reader representative Derek Donovan says no one in the newsroom at 18th and Grand knew that former columnist Rhonda Chriss Lokeman had been arrested for drunken driving. "It was news to me," Donovan wrote. "And as I discovered when I asked editors in the newsroom, nobody there knew about it there either, from the police/justice assistant city editor on up to editor and vice president Mike Fannin."Donovan explained that Star reporters don't fis

  February 3, 2009

• Star runs stupid and horrible climate column

  The Kansas City Star reprinted a George F. Will column about climate change roundly derided as a pile of stink-poo upon its publication.Will's column first appeared in The Washington Post on February 15. The bow-tied conservative took aim at the "eco-pessimism" surrounding the "hypothetical" calamity of climate change. Will concluded his column by stating that "there has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade," according to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization.Within hours,

  February 26, 2009

• Mac Daddy

  December 2, 2004

• Daily Briefs: Macroeconomic implications of topless football games

  We are all hippies now: Look, the simple fact is that when actual U.S. suburbs, as seen in the horrible embarrassment to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,American Beauty, begin experiencing drug-related violence by Mexican gangs, you are totally allowed to say that U.S. drug policy is broken without being this guy: I tried to find a picture of what you do look like when you criticize the current reactionary U.S. drug enforcement regime, but apparently nobody is selling a "Bo

  March 25, 2009

• Star, Examiner won't run same-sex wedding announcement

  Mike and Chuck HewittTwo Missouri newspapers refused to run a wedding announcement from an Independence same-sex couple.On May 17, Mike and Chuck Hewitt legally tied the knot in Lamoni, Iowa, and wanted to share the news. They tried to place wedding announcements in the Independence Examiner and Kansas City Star, but the newspapers rejected them.Here's what the Star and Examiner refused to print: Charles A. and Michael J. Hewitt were married on May 17, 2009, in Roy A. Cheville Chapel at Gracela

  June 3, 2009

• Teabaggers party at phallic WW I memorial

  You know what pisses me off about tea party protesters? These motherfuckers had no problem cashing the economic stimulus checks that President Bush handed out last year. No one was in the streets throwing a hissy fit and burning their stimulus checks then. But I'm never surprised by people who protest against their best interests.  Kansas City's tea party protest takes place at the Liberty Memorial at 4 p.m. Let's get this straight. There's going to be a bunch of people talking about teabag

  April 15, 2009

• Daily News to Star: Drop Dead

  August 25, 2005

• Backwash

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  August 4, 2005

• Adult Education

  The Star writes for fifth-graders, but Jerry Agar doesn’t get it.

  January 27, 2005

• Point/counterpoint: Is Miriam Pepper paying any attention?

  The Washington Post continues to face criticism of its handling of a George Will column about climate change.Will's column, which appeared in The Kansas City Star, was roundly criticized for distorting climate science. The column was so bad, Will's colleagues have made attempts to point out its flaws. Will stands by the column, as does his boss, Fred Hiatt, editor of The Washington Post editorial page, who was asked about the piece in a recent online chat.I blogged about the Star's decision to r

  May 1, 2009

• Kansas City Star finally takes same-sex couple's money

  Michael and Chuck HewittSame-sex couples are finally getting equal treatment on The Kansas City Star's "Celebrations" page. The Star ran the first wedding announcement for a gay couple on Sunday -- a month after Charles A. and Michael J. Hewitt claimed that the Star and the Independence Examiner refused to run their announcement. At the time, Star reader rep Derek Donovan told The Pitch that the Hewitts' announcement was turned down because of an outdated policy, but the Star was changing it. I

  July 6, 2009