For the purpose of my own entertainment and self-mythologizing, I will now tell my personal history of flip-flop wearing. The most wonderfully comfortable pair of flip flops I ever owned was actually a $1.99 pair from Walgreens. Back in the summer of 2001, I had bought two pairs from Old Navy and hated them because […]

1. If you’re going to criticize Bob Kerrey, Chuck Hagel or Scott Kleeb for being “carpetbaggers” or “non-Nebraskans,” please do Jeff Fortenberry the honor of remembering how he spent most of his life in Louisiana before making a pitstop in Lincoln on his way to Washington. And while I’m on the topic of Chuck Hagel, […]

I have recently become a little less fond of our new home due to three sightings of garter snakes in the past few days. I am so super afraid of snakes that even though I know garter snakes are harmless and an important part of the ecosystem, I still don’t want them around. I’d be […]

According to the liveleak blurb, this is an “…animated sequence portraying a firefight through the eyes of U.S. Army Specialist Colby Buzzell.” Beyond the story, which is pretty compelling, the animation is absolutely stunning. Two-dimensional drawings are combined with brilliant three-dimensional direction utilizing dust and firebursts to make it come to life. There’s some strong […]

Former DN cartoonist Jim Mehsling is in the news and it has nothing to do with football players or police! I saw in Saturday’s Journal Star that Mehsling has a Star Wars animation that’s a finalist in an atomfilms.com competition. I never knew the guy, as he preceded me by several years at the DN, […]

I hope the man upstairs is proud of his bigoted little followers who shot down LB475, which would grant homosexuals protected status from hiring discrimination. Sure, they’ll make up lies and play naive on the stand, but then talk about how they don’t want to encourage immoral behavior. The committee heard first-hand testimony about being […]

When 106.9 Bob FM switched to Power 106.9, Omaha got its first “big city” radio station. It’s more than just a hip-hop station – it is very intelligently programmed, and when you listen to the station, you feel like “This was programmed by someone who knows and loves the music and is making decisions accordingly,” […]

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Hey you know CBS – that one network that EVERYONE can agree is SUPER LIBERAL because they used to have that Dan Rather guy and they have 60 Minutes? Well, at CBS, you can get fired as a ‘News consultant’ for speaking out against the surge because that violates their policy on “expressing a public […]

This was probably the best concert I’ve ever been to, and so much better than when I saw him in London in ’97. I just think that’s so cool – seeing Morrissey in Omaha was way better than seeing him in London. I should be on an Omaha commercial. But that show 10 years ago […]