Yep. I am willing to bet that my high school in Kansas City spent a good deal more time on Bleeding Kansas than New England high schools did, and that we spent less time on the Boston Massacre than they did. Crispus Attucks was certainly mentioned here, but he was never singled out as a remarkably important historical…

From what I’ve seen of Gorsuch thus far, he doesn’t strike me as an idiot, just someone with views I strongly disagree with, but speaking as an Ivy League alum, I promise you there were students graduating alongside me who were dumber than a box of hair. Some of them have gone on to get graduate degrees from…

I’m not the person you asked, but I’m a singer and yes, I actually did have a comparable range when I was younger...and on antidepressants. I lost some of that range due to an entirely unrelated health problem years later, but I can’t figure out any way antidepressants would affect my ability to hit high and low…

Yeah, the outrage at a black Santa is weird as hell to me considering that I’m white, in my late 30s, from a fairly conservative part of the Midwest...and there are pictures of me as a small child on the laps of four or five different Santas, one of whom is black. (Knowing my mother, I suspect her reasoning for…

Yup. Former classical musician here, friends with a lot of former/current classical musicians, and there has been a lot of snark on my Facebook page recently along the general lines of “Trump wants Andrea Bocelli or Jackie Evancho to sing at his inauguration, because all the good classical singers apparently told him…

Ha, that’s delightful.

Yeah, it’s tough to balance “try to keep my state sane” and “try to keep myself sane/safe” when you come from a state like ours. I’ve been staying in Missouri in large part because I feel a moral obligation to keep stumping for Democratic candidates and casting my blue vote here, but after this election, I’m very…

As a lifelong fan of the no-longer-reigning-as-of-tonight World Champions, I’m doubly happy that we handed that title off to a team whose fans have more than earned it, and that Zobrist got to be the hero of the game (and get a sports car out of it to boot). We’re still pretty fond of him here in KC - but I have to…