I saw a billboard downtown that I tried to figure out what is was supposed to be advertising or promoting. It had a reference to the below url: loveisequality.org When I got home and typed that into my browser, it instantly rolled to a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/loveisequalclothing After reading the billboard, then the Facebook page, … Continue reading Poor Use of Language: Love is Equality
Category: Politics
Tragedy Points Out Need for City Action
A tragedy came to our section of Kansas City North on Saturday. There are links to the news stories below. To summarize, two kids were riding on a skateboard in the street when a car came over the hill and wasn't able to stop before hitting them. The eldest, 9-year-old Jordan Hale, died at the … Continue reading Tragedy Points Out Need for City Action
Keeping the Baby But Dumping the Bathwater
I am getting a lot of good reading from the varied books of my communications courses. But every so often something just pops out at me. I sit there bewildered, wondering if the writer really said that, did they really use that example, to mean what they intended, expecting everyone just to agree with it, … Continue reading Keeping the Baby But Dumping the Bathwater
An Observation Here and There
Today's blog is going to be a quick list of small items that hit my mind about the day: 1) Missing Lug Nuts Yesterday was the Snake Saturday Parade in North Kansas City. My family participated with 100 people from Avondale United Methodist Church and hundreds of other people from other organizations in an exciting … Continue reading An Observation Here and There
Limitations of the “Bully Pulpit”
I was doing research for my master's degree group "think tank" project this week, and came across this article by Corwin Smidt: "Not All News in the Same." It had some conclusions that I think should make many people on blogs I follow feel a whole lot better. Smidt uses a study of news cycles … Continue reading Limitations of the “Bully Pulpit”
The Myth of the True Story
Life of Pi, Page 316-317. Copyright 2001, Yann Martel Harcourt Books "The Tsimtsum sank on July 2nd, 1977." "Yes." "And I arrived on the coast of Mexico, the sole human survivor of the Tsimtsum, on February 14th, 1978." "That's right." "I told you two stories that account for the 227 days in between." "Yes, you did." … Continue reading The Myth of the True Story
Speak Loudly and Carry a Small Stick — Wait What?!?
Speak Loudly and Carry a Small Stick -- Wait What?!?Okay, on this one I am going to comment off the cuff with very little background. But after hearing President Obama's quote about "I can do whatever I want" (I'm sure we pundits are making him mean more by it than he meant in context -- … Continue reading Speak Loudly and Carry a Small Stick — Wait What?!?
Water Main Break Stops — Creates More Questions
Note: this is a continuation of several other posts. For more on them, see these links: Water Main Bursts Day 4 of Water Main Burst Day 7 Update Our water main is no longer running like a gushing fire hydrant down our street and across our driveway. After my last update, the culvert pipe under … Continue reading Water Main Break Stops — Creates More Questions
The Ever-Present Plurality
For my communications class, one of the projects was to watch Buying the War, a PBS feature where "Mainstream Media" reporters bemoaned how they let the government deceive them into supporting the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and then writing a commentary on it using a couple of communication theories from our theory book. Many … Continue reading The Ever-Present Plurality
Water Main Break: Day 7 update
Click here to see video story of the water main break. Well, it is Day 7, and the city has decided to solve our problem -- with salt. See the response below: Your request for service was forwarded to the above department for action. The department reports that your request for service has been resolved … Continue reading Water Main Break: Day 7 update
At The Rainbow 