Back in the day before television became completely franchised and homogenized, Kansas City had a fair number of it’s own stuff going on. Horror movies huge, with most stations running regular movie nights, complete with live hosts. Remember Crematia Mortem on Channel 41’s Creature Feature? Or how about Channel 5’s Friday Fright Night and the Ray Adams ads? Horror Host Stuff has lots of info these and other old KC televion shows and personalities.

Here’s the latest book from author, columnist, Progressive, and California governor candidate Arianna Huffington. It aims to expose both the right wing fanatics running the county into the ground, and the left wing fools who are bending over and letting it happen. Her analysis of fanatics is kinda lame and disjointed, but the coverage of the fools is dead on.

The Batfamily expands again. Congratulations Emily and Brian on your newest Wonder Woman.

Web designers, for the love of god please remember to use the friggin’ <label> tag for your form elements, especially radio buttons and checkboxes.  It makes the text next to the form element clickable, so the user doesn’t have to land the cursor exactly on the wee little element.

Here’s a reprise from last year that is more relevant than ever. It’s a very, very interesting interview with Ronald Reagan's son on his thoughts about the Bushies' attempts to claim the “Reagan legacy” for their idiot prince. If you don't subscribe to Salon you can still read the article after sitting through a brief advertisement.

If you didn’t have the attention span (or the stomach) for Fast Food Nation, Super Size Me is a good movie version of the same idea. One guy eats nothing but McDonalds for a month, gaining 25 pounds and sending his liver and other organs into shock. It’s a good illustration of the obvious, fast food is very unhealthy and should only be eaten sparingly. Morgan Spurlock is being called the next Michael Moore, but he isn’t an asshole. The movie also features some great satirical artwork from Ron English.

Check out supersizeme.com

Here are two interesting looks at various economic indicators during the last few presidencies - includingunemployment, job creation, stock market performance, and budget surpluses/deficits. The pattern is painfully obvious.

From Buzzflash:

From American Assembler:

Craigslist finally has a local web site. This community-driven forum is popular in other cities for all kinds of classifieds, want ads, etc. There isn’t much there yet, so be sure to keep an eye on it as people begin to discover it.

kansascity.craigslist.org

The scourge of abandoned pants continues! This time it’s two pairs of pants discarded at the Firefighters Fountain. Although, given the illicit reputation of Penn Valley Park, there may have been legitimate reasons for the owners to remove these particular pants….