BurningbirdSheila points to a good story on the recent Boston ‘terror’ alert, with bomb squad folks blowing up electronic boards with characters flipping the bird. She also has a good comment of her own: Get a grip and admit you jumped straight to the doomsday scenario without investigating more plausible explanations. It’s not the kids’ fault that […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ameren has filed a change of venue in the state lawsuit regarding the Taum Sauk dam break. They want the case tried in Reynolds country, rather than St. Louis. The reasons are obvious: Reynolds County has developed an economic dependency on Ameren. Despite the extensive natural resource and property damage caused […]
he surest indicator of how things have changed since the election is that Bush came to Missouri today, but the lead story in St. Louis Today (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch online site) ended up being about the winning Powerball ticket being sold in Missouri. Bush’s visit was relegated to the back pages; along with an […]
Bush is making a visit to Missouri on Thursday to push his health care plan. How appropriate, considering that our Republican governor has cut the number of children and other people covered under Medicaid and Medicare. Over 100,000 400,000 were dropped, and I’ll tell you one thing: they won’t be covered under Bush’s plan, either. Here’s the deal: I as […]
Only getting titles in an RSS feed can lead to moments of confusion and disappointment. I read the following headline in today’s St. Louis Today feed: Former President Bush gets hip replacement. My immediate thought was: you mean he quit? Then I remembered, oh, his Dad. I tell you, it was a crushing disappointment.