KC Confidential

Love Has No Love for Sax

Courtney Love, that bastion of musical history and drug addled commentary, has taken on rocker Bruce Springsteen. While softening her misguided comments with, “He’s a nice guy,” Love stated her problem with the Boss’ music is that “saxophones just don’t belong in rock ‘n’ roll.” It matters not that the saxophone has been used by everyone from The Cure to Pink Floyd, Love doesn’t get it.

Here’s some food for thought, Courtney: if Kurt had put a sax in his mouth, he’d still be in Nirvana.

Circumstantial Evidence

Jeffrey Chapman of Great Bend is charged with first-degree murder. However that’s not the story. Chapman is afraid the tattoo spelling out the word “murder” across his neck might prejudice a jury, so he wants the State to hire a tattoo artist to remove or cover it up.

“Prosecutors say they aren’t opposed to Jeffrey Chapman covering his tattoo, but Barton County’s sheriff says he’s against transporting Chapman to a licensed tattoo facility — the only places tattoo artists are allowed to practice under Kansas law.”

Chapman’s trial is scheduled to start Monday in killing of Damon Galliart, whose body was found by hunters in a roadside ditch in rural Great Bend.

His attorney says in a motion the tattoo would be extremely prejudicial if seen by a jury. I’ve taken a close look at the tattoo and determined that it can easily be changed to the word “DOUCHENOZZLE” which is far less prejudicial. Continue reading →

Think Pony Express revisited…

Last fall former postal clerk Mark Dimondstein was elected President of the American Postal Workers Union on a platform of killing Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s downsizing plan and stopping Staples in its tracks.

The issue?

Since 2008 the Post Office has seen its volume plummet more than 25 percent. Think about it; how vital is your mail box these days?

Donahoe’s plan: think outside the envelope.

That’s a rare and dangerous action for a bureaucratic behemoth – especially the part about opening mail centers inside Staples stores.

So what’s not to like about that?

Staples mail centers would be staffed by its workers, not PO union members. Continue reading →

Cue the mysterious music…

Having been trapped last week inside the luxurious confines of Olathe Medical Center – from early Monday until 10:00pm Saturday – I had plenty of time to contemplate all manner of topics in the white noise of my head.

I was reminded of a Bible verse that declares a mountain can be moved with the faith of a mustard seed as I thought about my wife’s kidney stone.

Hard to believe the rigors we put our bodies through only to have a grain of misplaced sand bring everything to a screeching halt.

With that back drop, I began to think of what we as humans can and can’t do. And how we’re taught at an early age that we only use 10% of our brains – one percent maybe for Harley.

However that’s false – except for harley – because most of us use it all. Continue reading →