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.
If Governor Jay Nixon signs Senate Bill 202 into law, Missouri motorcyclists over 21years of age will no longer be bound by law to wear helmets when they ride, except on state highways. Cyclists who love the feel of the wind in their hair (and hate to have government regulations weighing on their handlebars) have Clay County Republican Sen. Luann Ridgeway to thank if the helmet law dies at Nixon's hands this month. Ridgeway says that she's been trying to bury Missouri's helmet law since shortly
We love a good horror movie, and the best, most affecting, are often the low-budget ones that come out of nowhere. See the production histories of Night of the Living Dead, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Halloween for further reference on that. This is why we're pulling for Lawrence-based SenoReality Pictures, who've got a movie called Nailbiter that they plan to finish this summer. The teaser trailer is already getting attention from gore hounds across the nation via horror sites li
Katie HornerPoor Katie Horner. The matriarch of meteorology just wants you to seek shelter -- intermediately! -- with your emergency kit (and there's still time to gather one up before the next rain). But some unappreciative souls want her fired. And some heathens -- we're looking at you Lawerence.com -- want you to use her insightful, motherly weather forecasts to get drunk.Just look at this. The Katie Horner Drinking GameIf Katie's wearing jeans, it's clearly casual day. All players must be in
Katie HornerYesterday, I pitied poor Katie Horner and the backlash against the KCTV5 chief meteorologist's often hysterical and overprotective forecasts. I also highlighted a drinking game, which I first saw on Lawrence.com, that is sure to leave you black-out drunk during the next Horner-gasm. Turns out the game is the brainchild of Adam Yarbrough, who posted a comment asking for credit. It's all yours,
man. Great game. Earlier this morning, I talked with Yarbrough and he told me that he concoc
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Sidling up to local authors was real easy in Lee's Summit last weekend. For the second year, Metropolitan Community College-Longview hosted a literary festival. All day Friday and Saturday, poets, novelists, children's book authors, nonfiction writers, bloggers and other scribes of all stripes peddled and read from their works and talked about the act of stringing words together.
Attendance was pretty sparse during the two hours I spent at
