Mayor (For Life) Slay’s “Big Picture” today.  If the guy in red catches it, he’ll be unmolested on his way to the endzone....

* James Dobson is resigning as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Focus on the Family.  In his place will go Air Force Lt. Col. Patrick Caruana (Ret.), who was als once an executive with defense contractor Northrup Grumman.  Doesn’t anyone else find it a little bit weird that someone who ...

I’m taking most of the weekend off from blogging, so I’m going to round up some of the Friday news in short snippets. * I hope this means what I think it means, or what I hope it means — Several British cities will be hosting Conventions on Modern Liberty where, they will among oth...

* There were two shootings in St. Louis City on Friday night.  However, they took place where you might not expect, but if you keep up on the decline and fall of St. Louis, you won’t be surprised.  One was on Potomac and Michigan, and the other was on the 3700 block of Iowa. * It looks like ...

Because Claire McCaskill knows who she wants President Obama to replace you with.  To think, all that sucking up didn’t work.  You know, how you got on TV to bloviate about child molesters, child kidnappers, elderly abuse and interstate scams, (as if 99.999999% of the people already don̵...

You can’t be too hard on a guy who steals explosives from the police in anticipation of the 2012 end of the world according to the Mayan calendar.  After all, he did seem to be sensitive to the culture of one of the ancient indigenous civilizations of North America.  And we are told that we ...

P-D: Not making the grade After four years of high school reform, after a host of new programs, new schedules and new approaches, Hazelwood School District high schools are failing. (snip) A major feature of the plan calls for a new “4-by-4″ block schedule for the 2009-2010 school year. ...

Mayor Slay: Chief Isom’s News Conference Police Chief Dan Isom was at a news conference this morning. He said that he would have liked to have been talking about the hard work the department is doing in city neighborhoods; the individual successes of his officers; the promise, talent, and challeng...

Richard Spencer, writing for Taki T.: I actually don’t think American heavy industry would vanish forever if the Big Three were allowed to dissolve. The main reason others are so convinced of this, I think, is that the Big Three have been dying a slow, agonizing death for the past thirty years, sh...

Shorpy does St. Louis again, showing four boys hawking the St. Louis Times newspaper on the corner of Jefferson and Franklin in 1910. What’s more fascinating to me is that we once had a lot of newspapers in this town.  Hell, I’m just old enough to remember the Globe-Democrat in my consc...