Guy Speckman

I don’t like bringing you unwelcome news, but somebody must be the voice of reason around here. Here are some of the state level headlines bouncing around the last couple of weeks. “Missourians sign initiative petition to put abortion rights on the ballot,” “Petition Drive succeeds in placing new party on ballot,” “Pro sports teams submit petition signatures to legalize sports betting.”

I have not read the presidential policy platforms for the upcoming election, but I’d throw my support behind the first candidate that agrees to standardize the red, yellow, green button for credit. Every store is different, yellow for credit, green for credit, red for credit and I seem to always be wrong and some kid behind the counter looks at me like I’m an ogre from a prior century. I push green and they say something like, “yellow for credit,” as they reach over and cancel my transaction in disgust and say, “you gotta start over.”

This is a post-holiday weekend column. Lower your expectations if that is possible. Kansas City police and public officials were seen on local news recently, extolling the lower murder rate so far this year and just like that someone got shot dead in Westport on Saturday night. Five others were also shot. RelatedNews Pouring gas, […]

Welcome to the summer of 2024. Enjoy this time because the summer of 2024 will presumably be followed by the fall of 2024, and it is an election year.We all should be fairly miserable with each other by mid-October, plan yourself accordingly. Before you’re miserable about national politics though, you can vote yourselves a new […]

Gonna be honest, I have not been contact traced in quite some time. Miss those days.

Welcome to summer. Summer officially starts in my book when a sweaty crevice alert is in play. If you want to wait on the earth tilt to get closer to the sun to decide it’s summer that’s your choice, but mine has started.

If you think your job is bad, imagine being a political fact checker for the next four months. I’d rather clean the colonoscopy procedure room at the local outpatient clinic.

The entire administration that has lied about the cognitive condition of our president for months, if not years, is our protection against the end of Democracy? Got it. Between you and I, I’m beginning to question if our government is on our side.

I’ve never seen a person winning a fight say, “Let’s tone down the rhetoric.” Usually, the guy that is getting the crap kicked out of him, or his friends, say, “woah… let’s talk about this.” You equate that to whatever current event you like.

Tip of the cap to Democrats. They are far superior at insurrections than Republicans. They overthrew the government right before our very eyes without climbing through a single window. I bet Democrat primary voters would like that 15 minutes of their life back. It was cute of them to let you vote.