Author Archives: Paul Wilson
Paul Wilson: Welcome to the World Series of Superstitions
Our Kansas City Royals meet the Mets at The K for the first games of the World Series… While listening to a friend’s talk show yesterday the topic turned to baseball fans and player superstitions. And once again I was assured … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: News of the Weak — Life After Death
Put the FUN in Funeral: Pose Your Loved One. What’s the phrase, everything old is new again? Your well coiffed scribe is always in search of news that falls a little off the beaten path, and I sure found it … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: When the Media Gets it Wrong – Intentionally
The headline on the popular web site, U.S. Uncut, reads, “Racists in Ferguson Burn Down 5 Black Churches in 9 Days.” Uncut describes itself as “a decentralized direct action group in the United States established in February 2011 to combat corporate … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: Why No Arrest in Zocalo-Plaza Military Officer Beat Down?
Just after midnight on the morning of Sept. 19, Police were called to Zocalo Mexican Restaurant on The Plaza in reference to an assault… A 37 year old Captain, stationed at Fort Leavenworth for a 12 week training mission, was savagely … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: Sprint Cuts Deep & This Time It’s Gonna Bleed
How many times can this happen until there’s nothing left of a once, legendary local employer? And now the real facts about the Sprint layoffs you won’t find anywhere else. Yesterday, word began to leak that Sprint was going to announce … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: Highwoods Lists Crime Ridden, Depreciating Asset – The Country Club Plaza
Try Googling, “violence on the Country Club Plaza” You’ll get 822,000 hits. Scroll down that lengthy list and you can read stories from every media outlet known to man. The Daily KOS, The Blaze, WaPo, HuffPo, USA Today, TIME, KCC … Continue reading
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Paul Wilson: Republican Presidential Debate – Do These Guys Even Exist?
I knew going in that last night’s debate would be more than I could stomach… Listening from my home office was as close as I wanted to be to this train wreck. I could hear it as well as I … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: K State Half Time Show – It’s a Bird, it’s the Enterprise, it’s…a Marching Penis?
About the hubbub over the K-State band’s half time show in Manhattan… Not being a sports fan, I caught the video on Facebook and had a hard time – no pun intended – trying to decipher exactly what it was the … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis – Hate Comes Full Circle
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Kim Davis is the disgruntled Kentucky clerk who has recently acquired her 15 minutes of fame by refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples… Gay marriage – after the recent SCOTUS ruling … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: Rainy Day Books Presents Anne Lamott
Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking to Rainy Day Books honcho Vivien Jennings… For those of you who may not know her, Vivien is the woman behind bringing nationally recognized authors, politicians and celebrities to Kansas City for readings, lectures … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: Ferguson, Mo, Part Deux – The Protestors Make the Rules
The storm clouds are gathering… Sometime this week or next, we’re most likely going to learn the fate of Ferguson, Missouri police officer, Darren Wilson. Whether he will or won’t he be charged in the shooting death of Michael Brown. And that set … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: “I Got The Message, I’m Not Changing a Thing.”
Time to do a little tea leaf reading… The midterm elections are over, but what does it all mean? Other than it almost seems as if someone other than the American electorate cast most of the ballots Tuesday. How else to explain polls … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014 Prediction, Democrats, Hillaryand Bill, Paul Davis, Paul Wilson, Republicans, Sam Brownback
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Paul Wilson: Sprint Has a Plan Allright, To Clean House
Let’s do a little math… On October 17th Sprint announced it would lay off 452 employees from its headquarters. Add that to the 477 area employees laid off in March and that comes to 929 jobs lost in 2014 thus far. That leaves approximately 6,500 employees here … Continue reading
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Tagged Junichi Miyakawa, Marcelo Claure, Paul Wilson, Phil Collins, SoftBank, Sprint
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Paul Wilson: The Weak in Review; Snake Love, Dead in Bed & Foot Fetishes
ANAL EEL ANTICS We’re pretty much all familiar with run of the mill sexual fetishes, but here’s one that takes the cake… Seems an unidentified man got a South American Lungfish stuck inside his anus after seeing it done on a … Continue reading
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Tagged Patrick Quinn, Paul Wilson, South American Lungfish, Wang Tsou
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Paul Wilson: Life Lessons from the World Series
As a sports agnostic, I’ve watched the recent Royals run out of civic pride… Equally odd, Field of Dreams – one of my favorite movies – is a baseball movie that has nothing to do with baseball. It’s about life, loss and … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: Pope 1, Fundamental Literalist Christians Zip
Pope Francis made a big bang in the news this week by conceding that evolution most certainly did happen, but at God’s impetus… The Pope told the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Sciences that the “Big Bang” – which today we hold to … Continue reading
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Tagged Creationism, Evolution, Fred Phelps, Intelligent design, Paul Wilson, Pope Francis
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Paul Wilson: The Weak in Review
Bad Cop – NO Donut Sean Harrington, 35, a California Highway Patrol officer, pulled a woman over for unsafe lane change. She failed a field sobriety test blowing a .29. That’s DRUNK. Allegedly, Harrington asked for the lady’s cell phone … Continue reading
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Paul Wilson: Ferguson Will Not Go Gentlly into That Good Night
The Michael Brown autopsy is out… And of all the pertinent facts regarding the young man shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson last August, the most damning is that Brown suffered a close range wound to his hand. In other words, he wasn’t mowed … Continue reading
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Tagged Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Jamilah Nasheed, Michael Brown
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Paul Wilson: Ebola Czar Has No Clothes
I can’t get the Faux-Ebola panic off my mind… Fortunately more Americans have been married to Kim Kardashian than have died of Ebola. And frankly, I’m not sure which would be more painful, but that’s another story for another time. Ebola Czar … Continue reading
Paul Wilson: Coming Soon to a Town Near You…Ebola
This week’s news brings word that KU Med is hosting a guest… And not just any guest, mind you, but one who could become the third person in this country diagnosed with Ebola. While the hospital refers to the patient … Continue reading
