I know that the smoking issue is starting to get stale, so this will be my last post on the issue for awhile, provided that the pro-smoking cartel doesn’t come out with another asinine advertisement that demands to be disparaged.
A letter writer in today’s paper voiced his displeasure at cigarette butt litter. Right before […]

The smoking issue continues its extended run in the local media spurred on by an impassioned public who are flocking to the fray in great numbers. Amid all of the arguments concerning health and rights and economics, one question intrigues me: Why do people smoke?
Of course, scientists will go on and on about how […]

A syndicated article that appeared in yesterday’s SJ-R (linked here to the KC Star version) serves as evidence that the cultural climate is ripe for a new, lower-case expletive. In the story, the author looks into a growing trend that has young and old alike steering clear of bold-faced obscenities, either out of fear […]

There’s a particular word that always gives me pause when I hear it; see if you can guess what it is.

It’s used to lovingly describe our toddlers when at their most precocious. We use it to jokingly describe our adolescents when at their most Eddie Haskell-esque. And it’s often used, sometimes […]

If I were in a position of leadership in District 186 - a position that I neither aspire to or am qualified for but why should that keep me from piping up - here is the statement that I would have released to the media upon announcing the expulsion of 13 students for their […]