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Conspiracy theorist Author Jack Cashill is demanding a public apology from The Kansas City Star's Derek Donovan, who called Cashill a liar. I have my own demand, Jack. Apologize to Barack Obama and William Ayers for your crackpot Ayers-wrote-Obama's-book yarn. While you're apologizing, throw in one for the Crap Archivist for writing 2006: The Chautauqua Rising.

Must be a day of call outs. McClatchy Watch wants Kansas City Star publisher Mark Zieman to end the paper's "sweetheart deal" with "nationally syndicated columnist" and wife of Zieman, Rhonda Chriss Lokeman. Zieman response: a) he'll get right on that, or b) a fuck off disguised in a curt e-mail. What's up with everyone in this city taking their wife to work?

JoCoSob doesn't think dead pools are a bad idea if they keep Katie Horner from flipping out about the weather. "If we as bloggers start putting up our Death Pool, maybe the freaking media will stop focusing on Yule logs and start doing SERIOUS in depth reporting on what the hell is going on," JoCoSob writes. "With the snow season approaching you can be guaranteed less coverage of crime in the metro. Instead they [would] rather scare the crap out of people with false snow predictions." Katie Horner's heart is breaking.

The KCMO City Council is back to business, with the exception of Ed Ford, writes Dan from Gone Mild. Finally, the Funk-Squitiro embarrassment media tour ends.

Sweet Jesus, I agree with the Source on the "predatory" towing ordinance that the City Council is about to pass in response to the crying bunch of people who parked illegally and got their cars towed. "These are people who ignored signs in private lots and parked their cars where they should not have," the Source writes. "In most cases they took a risk to get a closer parking spot, and they lost." I gotta lie down. &mdash Justin Kendall