State of the Line introduces the "Funkhouser Adjective Alert System," giving us a color-coded warning system of the mayor's status. "So right now we're somewhere between 'beleaguered' and 'embattled,' " State of the Line forecasts. "Let's just hope we don't reach the last two on the list." Now if we could just get some Gloria Squitiro warnings. Squit Beacon red, racist comments ahead. Squit Beacon white, bathroom rendezvous in sight. Squit Beacon blue, Joe Miller's tears flow anew.
For various reasons, I've become incredibly familiar with the principles of Pavlovian conditioning and their utility in training people, I mean dogs, to perform simple tasks. So the AMAZING REWARD at the end of today's Daily Briefs should not be construed as a "prize" for reading the whole thing, but rather as a conditioned reinforcer that will increase the likelihood of similar behavior in the future. Furthermore, telling you in advance that today's entry has an AMAZING REWARD at the end shoul
The publishing event of the season in Kansas City has never seen official publication. We refer, of course, to It All Started When I Was Born, the fiery, ribald journal maintained by Funkhouser-keeper Gloria Squitiro from July of 2008 to January of 2009. While the 35-page diary has been debated and giggled over ever since it first turned up on KSHB's Web site last week, Squitiro's musings, apparently intended for a book, are not yet what any publisher might consider reader-friendly. In fact
Gloria Squitiro and Mayor Mark Funkhouser​Joe Miller's long-awaited story about working in the Funkhouser administration is finally up on Salon. Reading the story, it's clear Miller, a former Funkhouser spokesman and Pitch reporter, doesn't care for first lady Gloria Squitiro. If you've followed the story, you probably know it all. But here's a couple things I didn't know.1. Miller spent an awkward Christmas day with the Funks.
The first thing I noticed when I arrived was an array of toy penis
