Just when it was looking like former Star sports scribe Jason Whitlock had become a forgotten man…
Up pops the devil in the form of no-name Kansas City Chiefs player turned murderer, Jovan Belcher.
Belcher’s dastardly deed was the perfect storm for the race baiting former Kansas City columnist, garnering him props from Bob Costas and brickbats Tuesday night from Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. Continue reading
December through February are comedy’s biggest weeks of the year…
Especially fun is December with a strong line-up of stars and large holiday parties joining in at Stanford and Sons at the Legends.
One of the holiday comics is former local guy made good, James Johann. Yes sir, straight from Miami County. James started his career in Westport about 15 years ago. He was picked to be the opening act for the original Blue Collar Tour starring Larry The Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White and Bill Engvall. Continue reading
Does anyone else here feel really stupid lately?
Full disclosure: the following rant has nothing to do with the shows that you should think about checking out this week in the KC/Lawrence area.
This past weekend, downtown Lawrence was host to the Ugly Sweater Run. Approximately 3,000 paid $50 ($50!), and then showed up in all varieties of horrific holiday cheer to run an un-timed 5K. Actually I heard the course was a bit short of 5K. And it looked like there was more skipping, walking, and trotting than running. But whatever.
Point is, these are not the Ironman types. Nope, most were the kind of people that would sign up for The Color Run. Which by the way attracted about 8,000 participants a few months ago in downtown Lawrence.
Why do people want to pay good money to do this? I really don’t know. And that is why I feel stupid. Continue reading
The L.A. Galaxy won the Major League Soccer championship. People started rioting and overturning cars, but not because of the championship, just because
they live in L.A.
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New research shows creative people are more likely to experience mental illness. Finally, some good news for my Facebook friends. Continue reading
Face it, everybody loves a good murder-suicide story…
That much is obvious on the heels of little known Chiefs player J0van Belcher‘s dramatic departure from this earth this past Saturday.
I already bagged on the Star, which couldn’t wait long enough for significant details of the incident to come out, littering instead Monday’s front page with huge headlines followed by meaningless details about Belcher and his girlfriend. Not to mention grossly exaggerating the affect of the incident on Kansas Citians with bogus headlines like “Community Mourns” and “A City United In Sorrow.”
Actually, it was more a case of a city united in morbid curiosity. Continue reading
I’m trying to figure where I stand on immigration, abortion and the fiscal cliff. Hurry Bob Costas, channel Jason Whitlock.
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New medical research from Australia shows mistletoe may be just as effective at fighting colon cancer as chemotherapy. Plus, if you have mistletoe in your colon, everyone can kiss your ass! Continue reading
Hey look, I’m not dancing…
But KC Confidential got out in front of most media with the real story on the murder/suicide Saturday. My story was on the money.
This is not something to brag about because it’s truly upsetting and more than sad.
But yes, this was a racially motivated incident. It was about an all too common crime by a young black man who was a highly paid pro athlete. And who killed someone for no real reason. It’s about a culture that makes even average black Americans just as pissed off and ill. Continue reading
It’s starting to look a lot like last year…
The warm winter weather in Kansas City is back. I know, I know, it could still turn on us, but as we get deeper into December with not one really cold day and no snow it’s getting less likely. The next two weeks are supposed to be mild again – between the high 40’s and high 60’s in the daytime. So we likely will reach mid December snowless.
Last year there was no winter. Continue reading
It’s so predictable, so formulaic…
“A City United in Sorrow,” reads the headline atop today’s Kansas City Star. “Community Mourns – Kasandra Perkins and Jovan Belcher remembered.”
WTF?
Two people 99 percent of Kansas City never heard of before check out and because one of them was a Chiefs player – who just happened to murder his girlfriend and himself in a sensationalistic manner – the entire city is supposedly awash in sorrow? I don’t buy it.
I’ll tell you what we’re awash in and that’s media bullshit. Continue reading
It’s tough to predict how anyone will react in the face of unexpected tragedy…
That’s a given.
But most of the reactions from Kansas City Chiefs players and staff following the horrific Jovan Belcher murder-suicide left me a little confused.
“I don’t think anyone ever imagines waking up the day before a game, and getting informed that a player, a leader on your team, has something so tragic happen like that,” said Chiefs quarterback Brady Quinn after the team won its second game of the year barely 24 hours removed from Belcher’s alleged heinous acts.
Let’s be clear – Belcher didn’t have something tragic happen to him. Continue reading
Starting Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend, then drove to Arrowhead to discuss the matter with Scott Pioli and Romeo Crennel…
As usual, the team leaders failed and Belcher killed himself as the police arrived. Shot himself in the head.
Reports from friends say while he was kind and gentle, he also had violent outbreaks.
Even in college.
Jovan was a un-drafted free agent. The man made over $1 million a year. His girlfriend had a three month old baby, his. She stayed out the night before with other girls to go to a concert. He was upset and she had gone without his OK. Continue reading
So they haven’t signed Zack Greinke. The fact of the matter is, they probably won’t.
Get over it.
And to ESPN’s Jim Bowden, who, upon the announcement of Jeremy Guthrie’s signing tweeted, “Royals signing of Jeremy Guthrie ridiculous….now paying Ervin Santana & Guthrie combined $18m in ’13…why not Greinke, Sanchez or Lohse?”
YOU sir, are a complete idiot. For a baseball analyst, you clearly do not understand how baseball works, and quite honestly, that baffles me. Continue reading
The future for our hometown Kansas City Chiefs is dark, very dark…
In the years to come I do not expect this franchise to challenge for anything other than maybe a playoff spot. Remember a third of the league goes to the playoffs.
And since Marty Schottenheimer – and other than Hank Stram – this franchise has been unable to hire a strong leader or quarterback. Without a sharp head coach and top seven quarterback, we’re doomed to just playing out the seasons as an also ran.
And that’s something this franchise has been for decades. Continue reading
The Powerball ticket sold in Dearborn, MO has turned the small town upside down. You knew they were getting an attitude when the sign was changed to read: $100 Million Dollar General Store.
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Kansas City’s Secret Santa is showering victims of Hurricane Sandy with $100 bills. What’s the big deal? I used to shower a girl named Sandy with $1 bills at Bazooka’s. Is this a public forum?
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A former Boy Scout leader in Columbia, MO has been charged with luring young boys into sending porn to him. He says he needed the photos to rub his stick to start a fire.
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Another week, another rough ride at Arrowhead Stadium…
But for now, let’s get to my picks below.
Kansas State should destroy a weak and beaten up Texas team tonight. Even though they will not be center stage, and their quarterback is no longer going to win the Heisman (yes he will be invited to the award ceremony for JOHNNY FOOTBALL).
They can however get some redemption for our area losers. Continue reading
I have good news and bad news…
I’m not sure what the good news is, but I’ll think of something.
OK, here we go.
The bad news is that the World that you know and love is KAPUT!
Depending on how old you are, the death of Western Civilization may very well occur in your lifetime. The Leftist forces are on the march – Marxism, multiculturalism, egalitarianism and radical feminism are growing in strength and effectiveness.
Laissez-faire Capitalism, freedom of speech, religion, thought and all those “dated” concepts are soon to be subjugated by the Politically Correct crowd and eradicated by their growing surveillance State. Continue reading
Game on…
For nearly a year now the powers that be at the elegant and esteemed American Restaurant in Crown Center have been plotting and planning. Tinkering even.
Their mission: to young down the crowd at the upscale eatery which has fallen into somewhat forgotten times with the 35 and under set. In other words, the cool people downtown that flood First Fridays and are regulars at high end eateries such as Michael Smith‘s Extra Virgin and bluestem in Westport.
Enter the Bar American. Continue reading
Don’t look now, but the party poopers at City Hall in Kansas City are turning over a new leaf…
Sources say the Kansas City Council appears poised to relax the city’s density requirements which in Westport would allow the party zone to add new liquor licenses for bars and taverns.
Before a bar, restaurant or liquor store can be granted a liquor license in Kansas City, Missouri a density study must be made “to determine if the population within a 3,000-foot radius of the proposed premise tavern or package liquor store will support another package store or tavern in the area,’ according to city regulations.
For several years Westport has been at its max for new licenses, meaning new nightclubs and the like had to obtain their licenses from an existing businesses in order to open and operate.
Look for Westport to continue its comback if density requirements are relaxed. Continue reading
It’s all over but the but the the crying…
One year ago vaunted Plaza area jazz club Jardine’s hit the skids. That after a Thanksgiving holiday week from hell that spun out of control leaving former owner Beena Brandsgard trapped in an ugly, out-of-control tailspin, the club in tatters and bringing to an end its reign as the Cowtown’s premier jazz nightclub.
“They have until the close of business this Friday to breath life into continuing their (liquor) license,” says Kansas City Regulated Industries head Gary Majors. “They would have to submit a renewal request by Friday, but we have no indication they intend to do so.”
That after Regulated Industries – aka Liquor Control – has sent letters and made phone calls attempting to contact Brandsgard and the club to inform them of the impending deadline. With zero response.
“So our assumption is they are out of business,” Majors says. Continue reading
In life we have many dreams…
One of mine was to sit next to Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. I even promised my mom I’d do that.
Never happened.
I think I regret that one as much as having her see me go to prison back in 1985.
Well, close anyway.
It’s the holiday season now and one of the shows that brought me and millions of others a smile in the past was THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON. Continue reading
