Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missouri. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

In Percival Everett’s historical novel “James,” the whole world relies on the naming of names

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I spent the past couple weeks with James. I knew him in my youth as Jim, Nigger Jim, from Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn.” On the eve of the...
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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Joplin, MO, not so far away from Cheyenne, WY

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Joplin, Missouri, is about the same size as Cheyenne, Wyoming. If a tornado wiped out one-third of Cheyenne and killed 132 residents, we w...
Saturday, May 08, 2010

Give me good food with a good story

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Where Does Your Food Come From? That was the above-the-banner teaser in this morning Wyoming Tribune-Eagle . The subhead was this: With ...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Free speech is for people, not for corporations

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I'm a big fan of street theatre -- all theatre, really. Earlier this month, activist actors who call themselves "Yes Men" pull...
Friday, March 27, 2009

B-ball adds zip to a cold, snowy spring

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This time of year, all talk is about basketball. Sweet Sixteen, college women's hoops, NIT -- and that's all on the college side. NB...
Saturday, January 31, 2009

Sen. McCaskill reads riot act to "idiots"

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Watch Claire McCaskill (D-MO) take apart the idiot financiers who got us into this mess: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt90KUwCCoE This one...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

100,000 gather for Obama in St. Louis

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Meet me in Saint Louie, Louie, meet me under the arch with 99,999 other Obama supporters...
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