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Author: Bill Kesler

Before Bill Kesler retired in 2007 as vice-president of production for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he worked for more than 20 years as a photojournalist.

The truth is expendable

January 14, 2022 Bill Kesler Uncategorized Leave a comment

In 1949, George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four to warn of the dangers of totalitarian governments — the sort that he saw cropping up in Spain

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Trump role in pandemic

Strange times, reckless behavior, nightmare scenarios

June 22, 2021 Bill Kesler Government, Missouri region, Uncategorized Leave a comment

What a bizarre month this has been. We’ve had Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) ask if the National Forest Service might change Earth’s orbit around

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Trump’s obsession with grievance

December 18, 2020 Bill Kesler 2020 Election, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m a glutton for punishment. From time to time, I dip into Donald Trump’s @realDonaldTrump Twitter feed just to see what kind of insanity

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Adventures on the Titanic

July 12, 2020 Bill Kesler Coronavirus, Government, Health care, Trump Leave a comment

Paul Krugman recently posted a piece in the New York Times, The Deadly Delusions of Mad king Donald. It likened our current state of

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covid

A little math, a lot of science: calculating COVID-19 risks

May 12, 2020 Bill Kesler Coronavirus Leave a comment

This morning’s New York Times roundup, by David Leonhart, mentioned a blog post by a Dartmouth biologist, Erin S. Bromage: The Risks – Know

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Customs and Border Protection thanks you for your patience

August 23, 2019 Bill Kesler Government Leave a comment

Wow, this is going to be easy! That’s what I thought when I looked at the Trusted Traveler website. My wife and I were

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MO GOP PAC goes low with scary words and images

October 30, 2018 Bill Kesler 2018 Election, Missouri region, Politics, Voting/Elections One comment

The Missouri House Republican Campaign Committee (HRCC) seems to have a thing for scary words like socialism, state-controlled healthcare, atheists, liberal professors, progressive and,

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Everything you want to know about the Missouri 2018 ballot, but were afraid to ask

October 25, 2018 Bill Kesler 2018 Election, Missouri region, Voting/Elections, Widget: Missouri 2018 midterm Leave a comment

The Missouri 2018 ballot is a monster. So much to vote on, so little time: Candidates, the dreaded judges’ retentions, plus amendments to the

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“Xenophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist.” Who, me?

March 30, 2018 Bill Kesler 2018 Election, Civil Rights, Education, Justice, Religion in Politics Leave a comment

When you’re running for a school board position in suburban St. Louis and tweet out memes about banning Islam in America, what could possibly

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Slide fire bump stock modified ar15

Rapid fire weapons – every man’s birthright?

October 4, 2017 Bill Kesler Guns, Terrorism, Violence Leave a comment

In 1934, following the era of Al Capone and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Congress placed restrictions on the sale, purchase and ownership of

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