I’ve been amused by the not inconsiderable number of individuals who sanctimoniously point out that if people in places like Ferguson, say, don’t like
Author: Willy Kessler
Willy Kessler is a retired librarian who a few years ago relocated to St. Louis. She is alternately delighted and horrified by some of the more gothic aspects of Missouri politics as well as fortified by the persistence of progressives in a reddening state.
Claire McCaskill’s doomed love affair with Keystone XL
Today Claire McCaskill did it. She voted with all Senate Republicans and nine Senate Democrats to pass the House’s Keystone XL authorization. Of course,
The Klan and Ferguson: Who didn’t see this coming?
A few day ago many sources reported on the efforts of the Missouri KKK to get in on the Ferguson action. The white-robed bubba
RIP Democratic Party: The best of the 2014 election post-mortems
The average American lost big in the midterm election yesterday when their last, best, if imperfect, hope, the Democratic party, was, in legislative terms
Racism redux: St. Louis after Ferguson
The Ferguson incident: A young unarmed black man, Michael Brown, was shot several times by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. Several witnesses have
Guns here, guns there, in Missouri, everywhere a gun
“A Utah elementary school teacher who was carrying a concealed firearm at school was struck by fragments from a bullet and a porcelain toilet
GOP woman-speak: What are they talking about?
We’ve all heard that the GOP’s got a problem with women. A CNN poll taken last February found that 55% of all women –
Gun culture: Missouri-style
Numbers tell stories. Based on statistics from 2010, 24/7 Wall St. ranked Missouri eighth for overall gun violence. Missouri had 14 gun injury deaths
“Right to farm” amendment in MO: The invisible small print
You’re familiar with the classic situation of somebody who gets hoodwinked because they didn’t read the small print. Well, it looks like we’ve got
Todd Akin is back, whining and doubling down on “legitimate rape”
You know how right-wingers really, really want to be viewed as victims? It seems to be a twisted variant on the old adage that