It’s hard to point to anything involving the British Royal family as anything other than a living example of the dangers of inbreeding. But the Mark and Gloria story may have stumbled on to something.
In the 1930s, while the Brits ought to have been worried to death about Hitler and Germany, they were obsessed with [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Has Funk Turned a Corner?
November 25, 2008
Funk & the WSJ
November 21, 2008
A million years ago, back in journalism school, everybody was urged to read the front page feature of the wall Street Journal as often as they could. It was held up as a great example of good writing, especially good feature writing. And since most of us were never going to ever get a job in [...]
An end to Mammygate?
November 17, 2008
I don’t know if Ruth Bates, the woman who filed the Mammygate suit against Mayor Mark Funkhouser, his wife Gloria Squitiro and Kansas City; drinks booze. I don’t know if Gloria Squitiro does either. But for the sake of this argument, let’s assume for a moment the both do. The question then becomes who wakes [...]
KC man is named to top post in Nixon’s New Adiminstration
November 17, 2008
In a move sure to irriate the St. Louis-centric world, Missouri Governor-elect Jay Nixon has named a Kansas Citian to one of the top posts in the new administration. It’s Nixon’s first cabinet appointment.
Former KC City Councilman, Kelvin Simmons, has been named by Nixon to be the the next Commissioner of Administration. It’s one of [...]
Howlin’ Wolf
November 14, 2008
The word on the street in the Ed Wolf/Mammy-gate deposition was that Wolf gave it up quick.
That was not true. Wolf did not say he ever heard Gloria Squitiro call former staffer, a black woman named Ruth Bates,”mammy.”
He said he did not believe Bates was racially or sexually harassed by Squitiro at the office. And he [...]
