February 2012
6 posts
JOPLIN'S LANGSTON HUGHES PROBLEM →
If you’ve ever wondered why Joplin only co-named a few blocks of Broadway after Langston Hughes—surprise, surprise!—it’s because Joplin is embarrassing.
“Cope favors the advisory team’s conclusion that 20th Street be redesignated as a...”
– This is a good idea. I concur. (Via Globe)
GIVE ME IGNORANCE OR GIVE ME DEATH
If you’d asked me in 2010 what it would take to get people in Joplin to rally behind a property tax hike to improve public education in the community I would’ve said, “I don’t know—maybe a huge tornado that wipes out 30 percent of the town and most of the schools?”
And I would’ve been wrong.
Of course, we know what the district really wants this money...
“When Pastor Greg Earl arrived at Mission of Encouragement Church about 11:30...”
– (Via Globe) Supposedly, it was two teenage boys, which is even sadder. I was kind of hoping all this would stop once all the older ignorant pieces of shit die.
January 2012
49 posts
“Interesting. Maybe the storm disturbed their secret home/shelters, and they were...”
– There is a fantastic discussion going on at Above Top Secret about Joplin’s greatest legacy, and this is one guy’s hypothesis for why the Butterfly People/Angels were present during the tornado. Before you click over there, spoiler alert—there are a whole lot of dum-dums in the...
KERFUFFLES I HAD NO INTEREST IN WRITING ABOUT
1. Something about the Joplin Convention and Visitors Bureau starting to offer tours of the tornado. They told a Springfield station they were going to offer tours, then said all they were doing is making a map for dum-dums who can’t follow the huge straight line west to east, and people’s minds were blown on Facebook.
2. This person posted a Photoshoped picture of a “Rebuild...
“Had MLK lived a full life he MAY have been a great AMERICAN leader and not just...”
– Anson Burlingame, Globe blogger extraordinaire.
It’s true, we never will know if Martin Luther King Jr. could’ve been a great leader. He accomplished so little in his lifetime and is mostly unknown today except for that small slice of aggrieved blacks, I mean “downtrodden”...
"Venting" aka "Intolerant Lady Wants to Know Why...
kajedheat:
This letter was in the Joplin Globe today:
WEBB CITY, Mo. — Is this not America, the land of the free? How can anyone who calls themselves an American endorse and support any form of discrimination? Religious affiliation, nonprofit, or not, how dare you propose hiring policies against any person who partakes of a legal substance such as tobacco, as long as that person adheres to...
“Here’s an alarming development that strikes at the heart of American values:...”
– Hey! Andy Rooney came back from the dead to write a final musty and hilariously cranky editorial. Glad the Globe decided to use it.
WOW.
I didn’t realize how tasteful the product placement and in-show advertising is on extreme home makeover.
EXTREME HOME MAKEOVER: JOPLIN EDITION VIEWING...
Are you guys having one? I am. What are you bringing to yours?
We’re making spaghetti red, Fred and Red’s style. (This recipe looks pretty close to legit.) As far as atmosphere, I’m considering foiling the windows and throwing up a few “private property” signs.
It starts tonight at 7 p.m. That’s central, of course. If you live on the West or East Coasts,...
A TORNADO PARABLE
(A short introduction: I’m pretty sure I have now set the record for most rejected Globe columns, and in every instance, the Globe has made the right choice.)
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO REBUILD TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY
My friend Stan “The Stun Gun” Gunn — amateur cage fighter, UFC aficionado and pop-culture critic — occasionally fills in for me. He recently asked if he could review the mixed...
