Even if you don’t care about the brouhaha below, the Post-Dispatch’s Reader Talkback bloggywhatsit should still be all the free entertainment you’ll need for the day. Don’t be put off early by the guy who’s so mad he posts 20 comments on the first page. (No, it was not me.)

I don’t even care if you still live here: if you have any love in your heart for me at all, you need to go read this and then go write a letter here. I recommend something like this:
To Whom It May Concern:
I recently read in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that MoDOT is considering closing […]

So, having made its benjamins in theaters for the last five months or so, Star Wars Episode III comes out on DVD Tuesday. Allfather/carrion George Lucas has promised more adventures in the “Expanded Universe,” including a couple of developing TV series, but Epsiode III is the last part of the Star Wars saga I can […]

“It’s a problem that’s faced by police forces in every major city in our country, that criminals infiltrate and sign up to join the police force.”
-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has actual power despite saying things like this, on the Iraqi insurgency
The other night, on my way to my new home, I stopped at one […]

I don’t want to let this pass unnoticed: a couple of weeks ago, I was in full diatribe mode* about a dimwitted government functionary who suggested that prayer didn’t have to be religious. During the crescendo, I wondered sarcastically what a non-religious government chaplain would look like. A few days later, I was delighted to […]

…though if you printed out the org chart, he’d have been on page one and I’d have been in an e-mail on someone else’s computer.
One of the world’s most flamboyant advertising gurus has left his job after reportedly telling an audience that women made poor executives because motherhood made them “wimp out.”
Marketing giant WPP Group […]

This is the kind of thing that excites me. I’ve given up on Middle East peace and renewable energy; I’ll settle for stuff like this.

Sometimes, no matter how disinterested you are in baseball personally, living in St. Louis has a way of making you identify it with the world you live in; it is a crucial block in the teetering Jenga stack that is our local psyche. So it is hard to make a good day out of a […]

TO DO: acknowledge existence of Pacific Northwest
create your own “visited states” map

During World War II, it suddenly became… “difficult,” let us say, to get Coca-Cola syrup from the US to Nazi Germany. Communications with corporate headquarters were cut off and ingredients scarce, but the Germans running Coke’s operations there wanted to keep looking out for Coke’s bottom line (as well as their own employment) Nazis be […]

I can’t believe I haven’t read about this anywhere but… well, here:
A couple of days ago, I was reading this CBS News poll from last week. I had heard that the president’s approval rating was low, and boy howdy was it. At 37%, if the election were held today, I’m pretty sure he would lose […]