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Paul Wilson: You Heard it Here First – Sprint is Coming Off Life Support

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Paul Wilson

Yep, you heard it here first on KC Confidential…

I went against the current, swam upstream and correctly predicted the Sprint-Softbank merger before anyone. Dish had been the heavy media favorite.

For several days, if you Googled the proposed merger, our KCC story was in the Top 10 results.

Reader response to those early stories; about 50 comments predicting Sprint’s death.

I followed that up with a couple more installments and still the comments spoke of doom and gloom. And then I predicted a few weeks back that we were going to start to see cutbacks. And so what’s been announced of late; more cutbacks. Continue reading →

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Paul Wilson: ‘Women’s Day” Magazine Pegs Hypocrisy Meter with Clinton Award

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Paul Wilson

Picture your well-coiffed Scribe perched in Parterre Box 6 at the Kauffman…

Just as our former President – Male Whore in Chief, Bill Clinton – was taking the podium at the Women’s Day Red Dress awards at the Lincoln Center in New York. The award honors those who’ve made significant contributions in the fight against heart disease.

In the words of my friend, Jim, “It doesn’t get any ironiker than this.”

The magazine’s mission statement: is to “empower women with smart solutions for their core concerns.” Giving the award to The Bill was the obvious choice.

Bill is no stranger to women’s hearts and it wouldn’t surprise me if there hasn’t been a disease or two involved a time or three. Continue reading →

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Sounds Good: Neutral Milk Hotel @ Uptown, Afentra’s VD Party @ Midland

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Matthew Donnelly

At least Valentine’s Day is on a Friday this year….

Which means you can go out, buy your significant other some food, a few drinks, then go hit up a band or something. But the really cool part is that you’ll be able to blend in with all the other people that are just out having a typical Friday night sans the rose petals, poetry and chocolate.

If it was a Tuesday or something, you’d inevitably make eye contact across the dining room with another dude, and you’d both feel the shame that comes along with plunking down $40 on some stupid stuffed bear or something. Then you’d spend the rest of the evening staring down at your pasta because you’re a sucker. Continue reading →

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Sutherland: The Socialism of Fools

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Dwight D. Sutherland, Jr.

A Silicon Valley billionaire got himself in considerable hot water a few weeks ago…

He did so by equating the growing campaign against the wealthy “1%” in the Bay area to the Nazi campaign of anti-semitism in pre-WWII Germany. Thomas Perkins, a founder of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, even mentioned “Kristallnacht” as a metaphor for the unthinkable that might occur again (this time at the hands of “progressives”).

The reference is to the “Night of (broken) Glass” in 1938 when the Nazis unleashed violence against Jews and Jewish owned businesses throughout Germany. Perkins’ critics, who were to be found in even such presumably business friendly places as Bloomberg News, jeered that since none of the 1% had been killed or their property attacked, this was a ridiculous comparison and a stunningly inappropriate analogy. Continue reading →

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Paul Wilson: ‘Bring It On” @ The Kauffman – The Review

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Paul Wilson

What a way to go…

Just about the last thing I’d do on a typical Tuesday evening is sit through two hours of Broadway musical cheerleading routines. Then again, it was a date night with my high school daughter and I had a show to review.

That said, it’s not in the job description that I have to like everything I see.

And frankly as I headed to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts I was prepared to tolerate this one. Fortunately, I lucked out. Continue reading →

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Jack Goes Confidential: ‘ROBOCOP’—Flashy Remake Doesn’t Disappoint

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Jack Poessiger

To borrow an expression, crime has an even newer enemy…

Director Paul Verhoeven’s original ROBOCOP was quite the subversive and satiric spectacle back in 1987. It even fostered two sequels which were—-well let’s just say less than remarkable.

This week ROBOCOP reboots for a new generation of moviegoers and crime has a new enemy.

The setting is in the near future 2028 and multi-national conglom OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Their drones already bringing in millions of dollars from overseas policing operations.

“This is the future of American justice.” Continue reading →

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Hearne: Scribe Says Gay Mizzou Footballer No Big Deal

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

The media feeding frenzy on University of Missouri defensive end Michael Sam?

“Is it much ado about nothing?” muses sports scribe Craig Glazer. “The answer is pretty much yes, it is. I don’t think anybody who follows sports doesn’t believe that there have been several thousand players over the years that have been gay.

“The rumors were so strong about Chiefs kicker Nick Lowery and Royals star George Brett that Brett got Jeff Flanagan to write a column in the Star denying that he was gay.”

None of which much matters in today’s society, Glazer argues. Continue reading →

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Hearne: Did 19 Year-Old Sarah McLinn Murder CiCi’s Pizza Owner Harold Sasko Over Sex?

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

Sarah McLinn

There’s an elephant in the room but nobody seems to be able to see it…

That in regard to pending murder charges against 19 year-old Sarah Gonzales McLinn in the brutal slaying of her former boss and live-in roommate, 52 year-0ld Lawrence businessman Harold Sasko.

It’s like this.

Four weeks after Sasko – the owner of three area CiCi’s Pizzas – was found murdered in his home by Lawrence Police, no one has come forward publicly with a theory as to what McLinn’s alleged motive for killing him was. Her lawyer went as far as to tell reporters recently that, “The case would center on her motive, not on whether or not she committed the crime.”

Meaning what – that McLinn did it – but had a good reason for killing Sasko?

The $64 million question: why has no one has so much as raised the obvious question as to whether Sasko and McLinn were romantically involved? Continue reading →

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Glazer: My Brunch with ‘The Weasel’ Pauly Shore

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Craig Glazer

I was pleasantly surprised when I got a call Sunday from my buddy Pauly Shore…

“Hey Bud-dy, it’s Pauly, wanna come have brunch with me, greasy.”

I told Pauly that was nice of him, but it was snowing pretty hard and my Lotus doesn’t get around very well in the snow. Shore insisted and said he’d send a driver to pick me up at my condo in Fairway. And he was quick to tell me that he worked Saturday at the Improv at Zona Rose and sold out both shows. Then I told him, even though the weather was dicey, we’d sold out both shows with Erik Griffin from “Workaholics.”

In this biz, everyone is always trying to one up the other guy – it never ends. Continue reading →

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Mancow: ‘Cow Calls Beatles, Fab 4 Generation Money-Grubbing Losers

Posted on February 10, 2014 by admin

See the Beatles special last night?

Most underwhelming.

It reflects on us and our mortality when we see the invincible tumble and giants brought to their knees.

And YoKo dancing? Ugh!

Sean Lennon clearly didn’t know the lyrics but tried to act like he did. It’s all just about money now. Continue reading →

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Hearne: KU Confidential Meets KC Confidential

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

Some of you may have noticed a tweak to the KC Confidential masthead…

A year or so ago, after moving to Lawrence, I kind of half-assed launched a companion website called Lawrence Confidential. The objective; take advantage of my being stationed here in LA and try and offer this laid back, basketball-crazy burg an alternative news and entertainment option.

After all, with the exception of the odd tabloid that came and went over the years – the Lawrence Journal World and the small town boss hawgs in the Dolph Simons family had thingspretty well buttoned up when it came to what passes for news here.

Alas I was too ambitious, a crazy year got the better of me and I didn’t have the horsepower to make a full time go of it.

The flip side of that coin? Continue reading →

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Valentine: An Open Letter to KC’s Sister City in Japan

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Mark Valentine

Original art by Mark Valentine

A Letter to Our Sister City:

Dear Kurashiki,

Aunt Google told me about your recent snow storm. She said you were having a tough time with more winter than you’ve had for decades. I know how you feel. That trouble seems to be running in the family. I’d send you some road salt, but I’m running short myself.

You and I are used to a bit of winter, but this one hit like an atom bomb, not that I want to reopen an old spat. We both got a lot of snow, didn’t we? We both had people die from it. Winter rolled in on a war chariot and declared, “Vini. Vidi. Velcro.” Continue reading →

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Hearne: Why So Many People Who Know Jay Leno Despise Him

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

No way is Jay Leno going quietly in the night…

I may be wrong, but that’s my take having worked with Leno and kept an eye on him through the years.

Because of that relationship, I got a call from KSHB TV last Thursday wanting to interview me about my Jay Leno show at the Music Hall in April 1986.

Ostensibly it was Leno’s first appearance in KC so Channel 41 sent a reporter and cameraman to my house in Lawrence to record a piece for the station’s 5 p.m. newscast on Leno’s last night as the host of the Tonight Show (KSHB being the local NBC affiliate.)

While the television audience got the first bite, obviously I saved the best for you guys.

so here’s my pull-no-punches story: Continue reading →

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Sutherland: Ideas Have Consequences, Even for Pete Seeger

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Dwight D. Sutherland, Jr.

Steve Paul Do as I say, not as you think

Steve Paul, KC Star
Do as I say, not as you think

My friend Stephen was in Italy when he was a child…

He was visiting Venice when his grandfather, who was showing him the sites, introduced him to a very old man. The old man glared at Stephen without speaking and then walked on. When he asked his grandpa who the man was, and why he didn’t speak, and why his grandpa introduced him, his grandfather said; “His name is Ezra Pound. Even though he didn’t speak, I wanted you to be able to tell people someday that you met the greatest poet of the 20^th century.”

Stephen’s grandfather was correct.

Ezra Pound was arguably the greatest poet of our time, if not for his own work alone for the guidance and inspiration he provided to a host of others including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, D.H. Lawrence, Marianne Moore, etc. I have read numerous biographies and works of literary criticism which confirm his central role in the modernist movement.

I also know that he was a man whose political sentiments were viciously racist, anti-semitic, and could only result in war and genocide if taken to their logical conclusion. Continue reading →

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Leftridge: Welp, Here Come the Olympics

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Brandon Leftridge

I’m a hypocrite. I get it, and I’m okay with this…

See, in last week’s Super Bowl preview piece, I spent a lot of words on the ridiculousness of media week, and specifically, on the “human interest” side of football. The running back whose father was actually the person he’d always thought was his older brother; the backup defensive lineman who was born without the ability to taste chocolate.

My contention was (and is) that we don’t NEED bullshit, heartfelt tales of woe and/or triumph to make us feel excited about football. It’s football, for crying out loud.

Enter: the Winter Olympics. Continue reading →

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Whinery: Did NBC Fire Jay Leno for Skewering Obama?

Posted on February 7, 2014 by David Scott Whinery Esquire

“And the worst part about losing this job is that I’m no longer covered by NBC, now I’ll have to sign up for ObamaCare.”

Jay Leno‘s final joke….

Always one for a good conspiracy, is there something more sinister going on here than a mere retirement? Maybe I’m just always skeptical of things and seldom buy the “official” story.

But something just doesn’t add up about Jay Leno’s retiring. Continue reading →

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Paul Wilson: Weak in Review – Putin’s Folly, Zimmerman Stand’s His Ground, Insane Clown & Bill Murray Waxes Patriotic

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Paul Wilson

It’s been a slo week…

Snow’s kept the Darwinians inside, but for your consideration, I offer the following from the all the news that’s not.

2014 #SochiProblems

If you want some great reading, add #SochiProblems to your Twitter feed; apparently Russia needs Mitt Romney to come and fix the glitches:

My hotel doesn’t have a lobby yet but at least they got the room decor spot on (picture of Putin on night stand)
Hearing about #SochiProblems leads me to believe that this will be the FIRST HUNGER GAMES! or at least Thirst Games – dangerous face water? (sink full of yellow water pictured) Continue reading →

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