Citizens, In the words of the infamous General Turgidson, “We are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our . . .” . . . grade point averages! Gen. Turgidson, a real dick I encourage you to look at your grades…
Leave a CommentAuthor: Patrick Dobson
Dr. Patrick Dobson is a work in progress until his termination. In the meantime, He is a writer, scholar, postman, and college professor living in Kansas City, MO.
The University of Nebraska Press published his travel memoirs, Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer in 2015 and Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains in 2009. Canoeing the Great Plains won the 2016 High Plains Book Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award. His essays and poems have been published in New Letters, daCunha, Kansas City Star, Garo, Wood Coin, and JONAHmagazine, and others.
Dobson earned a doctorate in American History and Literature at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2013. He has edited books, taught journalism, and been a union ironworker. He now teaches American History, Modern Latin American History, and Western Civilization at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS.
He looks forward to hearing from you soon.
Over the years, I’ve had many vehemently negative things to say about Fred Phelps and his incestuous gang of thugs and bullies. They hurt me, my family, and my friends. I carried signs against his protests and I approved of efforts to tease, annoy, and provoke him and his kin.…
Leave a CommentDear Kansas City Revenue Department Compatriots, I want to pay my earnings tax online through the quicktax site. Several issues, however, prevent me from doing this. American capitalism at its heart. 1. I try to log into the site and it asks me for an authorization code. I copy the automated message I…
Leave a CommentSo, yes, my efforts to get a replacement paper from the Kansas City Star worked (see previous blog entry). I’m no less angry about the corporate nature of the paper, but it has possessed a corporate nature since William Rockhill Nelson established “a paper for the people (but not really)”…
Leave a CommentMs Parrish, An E-mail reply would be nice but not necessary. A Kansas City Star newspaper on my driveway is necessary. I didn’t get a newspaper this morning. I wrote the circulation desk through the channels you provide in the kansascity.com website around 9 a.m. I still don’t have a…
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