The editorial staff of Douglas and Main apologize in advance for the follwing picture. Two interns and a long time copy editor were fired as sacrifice to all those easily offended readers.
John B. is to blame. I have never read the Harry Potter books but I understand them to be a cross-breeding of Scripture and [...]
Entries from July 31st, 2008
With deep regret and shame…
July 31st, 2008
Show you care
July 31st, 2008
John B. calls on you to invest one of the rats-asses you have been hoarding and take the online survey at WAMPO (that’s the Wichita Area Metropolitan Planning Organization).
They want to know what you think the most important issues are in local transportation. Actually they tell you what they think are the most important issues [...]
Sharing my private life…
July 31st, 2008
I have a blog of my own besides Douglas and Main. I figure if I want to argue, err discuss, with one or all of you I should do what I am encouraging all of you to do and either comment on your blog or respond to you on my blog.
So I direct you to [...]
Wichita’s national political importance
July 31st, 2008
Paul Hill was recently contacted by the international media for his views on the upcoming presidential election. This leads to his wondering if he has arrived.
It cannot be a coincidence that the release of the ABBA music fueled movie Mama Mia comes right on the heels of this interest from Norwegian Public Broadcasting.
Would you like to be a college professor?
July 31st, 2008
Lou Heldman is teaching a seminar at WSU this fall titled, Strategic Issues in Media Management. He would like your help. He has a list of 13 books that he would like your opinion on. He would prefer that you read them before you give your opinions.
Odd coincidence: I checked out one of the books [...]
Todd opens up his heart…
July 31st, 2008
… and reveals it holds a channel tuned to G’s to Gents. I am not one to question any ones taste in television matter but…
Hi, my name is Bobby and I watched at least four seasons of Celebrity Fit Club.
But I don’t go around telling strangers. What goes on in reality TV stays in reality [...]
The trouble with labels
July 31st, 2008
Moti looks at the latest discussion/argument concerning the use of labels in political disagreements. Although the questions he thoughtfully deals with are bigger than just Wichita he brings the question home to a personal level. The issues may be different for you but the question of why you ultimately choose to vote for someone is [...]
Transparency concerns for the bond proposal
July 31st, 2008
The boondoggler has questions about CARE’s recommendations that the USD 259 bond proposal be reconfigured.
I can only imagine the difficulty in trying to get something like this passed in any community considering the present economic climate. The board and the members of CARE have my sympathy. I think some transparency on these question would be [...]
Bob to Bob
July 31st, 2008
Bob Lutz is concerned that the reworking of the Wichita school district bond proposal, only three months before the voters decide, will hurt its chances of passing. Bob Weeks responds to Bob Lutz’s column with some concerns of his own.
The proposed changes are here. They have not been approved by the board of USD 259.
If [...]
When is failure an option?
July 30th, 2008
A rumination on close calls, and the opportunities they can present, by Kirk Longhofer. He’s asking for the close calls in your life that turned out to be a good thing.
Enjoy the rain?
July 30th, 2008
Not so much for Miss Smarty Pants. The Friday evening rains made the big block party she had helped plan a small disaster. Go read the painful details.
Covering the courts
July 30th, 2008
Ron Sylvester of the Eagle is covering the trial of Karmonte Jones for the murder of Keith “Fritter” Peters. Ron’s blog has video excerpts from the opening arguments of the defense and prosecution.
When Ron is covering a trial he also uses Twitter to provide updates for those interested. If you are wondering how to Twitter [...]
Are TIFs worth the effort?
July 29th, 2008
Bob Weeks looks at a recent article in the Eagle that declares the TIF (tax increment financing) districts such as Old Town and the East Bank are not creating the intended new development and asks, “if property values in TIF districts are being assessed accurately and fairly?”
I see a trend…
July 29th, 2008
The blogging community of Wichita has a ripple of bicycle mania running through it. Moti Reiber at Jewish Simplicity is the latest to put foot to pedal. John Buuse of Blog Meridian has extended his blogging empire with Cycling in Wichita.
Now they need to help Todd stop waffling and start straddling.
Update: It looks like Todd [...]
50 years ago this August…
July 29th, 2008
…two dozen young people from the Wichita Branch NAACP Youth Council staged what would become the first successful Student-Led sit-in of the Civil Rights movement. By August 11th, 1958, they had desegregated the Dockum drug store lunch counter and all Rexall Drug Stores throughout the State of Kansas, and the movement gained a powerful new [...]
If you like baseball go Nuts
July 29th, 2008
Jeff Lutz’s blog about his adventures with the Wingnuts is fun to read. When he isn’t provoking Saint’s Nation (all two of them) he is laying odds on the actual start time of the game on rainy evenings.
We won’t mention the other Lutz’s blogging habits.
So you miss the way it was before 1600?
July 29th, 2008
And you were thinking, are there other people like me in Wichita? Why yes there are! ‘Wela (or Hywela as she is known in other circles) has a description of the local Society of Creative Anachonism and an invitation to introduce you to all the fun if you want to know more. You just have [...]
Which group of Americans do these statistics describe?
July 29th, 2008
Technical Savvy
• 71% are online
• 30% listen to iPod/MP3
• 20% watch music videos online
• 23% play video/computer games
• At least half have cell phones
• At least half use text messaging
Household and Family
• 52% are being raised by a single parent
• 22% are already parents
• Only 3% are single parents
• 55% are very stressed by school
Business [...]
Greteman accepts judge post…
July 28th, 2008
… at the Communication Arts’ 49th Design Annual that is. She has some thoughts on the state of pawn shop ads and the design business in general.
All of you appearing on “60 Minutes” in September, please step forward.
July 28th, 2008
What? Only one of you?
If I told you he was a former member of the National Board of Directors for American Mensa, former Mensa Regional Chairman, and was a four-term President of the Wichita Chapter of Mensa would that help you guess his identity?
My how blogs have grown up….
July 28th, 2008
The Wichita chapter of the NAACP reaped its second straight Thalheimer award this year for outstanding branch activities. One interesting aspect of the achievement is the way the local branch chose to be evaluated,
This year, we didn’t submit our branch activity report for consideration; submitting instead the Wichita NAACP Blog as an official Association Publication. [...]
The (Carlos) Mayans calendar
July 28th, 2008
Our former mayor is not about to accept the blame for Wichita’s lack of a Bass-Pro franchise. In an email to the Eagle, Mayans argues that the seeds of failure were planted and had taken root before he took office.
Shouldn’t the beginning of the email be dated 1 B.C. and does that mean we are [...]
Thoughts on the Wichita school bond issue
July 28th, 2008
Voice for Liberty In Wichita asks, “Who Runs the Wichita School Bond Issue Campaign?”
On the same topic Rhonda Holman points to the Hutchinson district’s struggles as a cautionary tale for schools who are planning bond issues.
Feeling his age
July 28th, 2008
“That Other Guy’s Thoughts” are about his impending birthday and his struggle with unrealized potential. I won’t reveal his age, he does in the post, but I think he should listen to Katie.
Chandra is in stalking mode
July 28th, 2008
In a good, healthy, slightly obsessive way Chandra is stalking the singer Ingrid Michaelson.
When Derek Purcell was shot…
July 27th, 2008
On July 11 Wichita Police officer Derek Purcell was shot twice. Stan Finger’s story in the Eagle gives us a glimpse into the events of the evening and officer Purcell’s thoughts.
In the split second between gunshots, Purcell squared his body to shoot back. The second bullet hit him in the right leg, just below the [...]
Allen Bell answers a few questions about Wichita’s economic development
July 27th, 2008
Dan Voorhis has a conversation with Allen Bell about the ups (subsidies that have worked) and the downs (subsides offered and then withdrawn) of his career in Wichita. As always there is room at the bottom of the article for your comments.
Photorealism, a Wichita Brick and Mad Men
July 27th, 2008
John B. ruminates on the AMC series Mad Men and what realism has to do with reality. And he needs help with local brick identification.
Yard signs protected
July 27th, 2008
Rhonda Holman at the WE Blog points out the new state law that restricts the limitations homeowner’s associations can place on political signs displayed in a homeowner’s yard. The blog links to a story in the Topeka Capitol-Journal that discusses, among other things, that the passage of the law surprised homeowner communities. Oddly, there is [...]
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