Catching up
Scott Walker is casting himself as a leader for getting out of the presidential race, but of course, he's just a quitter. A very unpopular quitter. Donald Trump is awful, but my least favorite Republican candidate in the Republican presidential field was Walker. (Ted Cruz is second worst.) The Wisconsin governor's lack of personal appeal I felt most viscerally. It’s the College Republican thing, I believe.My least favorite Republican candidate in the Democratic field is Hillary Clinton. And that’s what she is. She was a Republican when she was a Goldwater girl, and she’s a Republican when she’s owned by Goldman Sachs. In-between, her husband gave us NAFTA, mandatory sentencing, "don't ask, don't tell," and the repeal of Glass-Steagall.
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I’m currently reading Daniel Schulman’s “Sons of Wichita,” about the Koch Brothers. Very entertaining. I love reading about the personal failings of rich people. My siblings and I have a lot less money than Frederick, Charles, David, and Bill Koch, but our communication with each other is a lot less litigious.
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The St. Louis Rams are going to be an interesting case study this year in football fan support. The Los Angeles-bound NFL franchise took in a lot of fans of the visiting Seahawks in the season opener at the Edward Jones Dome. Then the team put up an embarrassing loss to Washington on the road in week two. More games like the one Sunday and home crowds could be very sparse come December.
I’ve stopped rooting for them. Making the playoffs on their way out of town, after nearly a decade and a half of historically-bad football, is not my idea of a feel-good story.
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Against all odds, the Cardinals posted their 94th win of the season last night, and that's with 12 more regular-season contests still to play. They’ve gone nearly the entire season without their pitching ace from a year ago, and without their third and fourth place hitters from what was once a formidable hitting lineup. Pitching, pitching, pitching. The story is as old as the sport itself. On Saturday, they clinched their twelfth trip to the postseason in the last 16 years. No foolin'.
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Sometimes the realities surrounding the city of St. Louis are too much to bare, but the city has taken ownership of “reality” on your cable box. Bravo’s Andy Cohen hosts the nightly series “Watch What Happens: Live” from in front of a wall that displays a Cardinals cap and an Andy-inspired Cardinals bobblehead. Former Cards All-Star Jim Edmonds and his wife Meghan (a St. Louis native) now anchor the 10th season of the Cohen-produced “Real Housewives of Orange County” on the same channel. Over on BET, St. Louis-based hip-hop star Nelly has now been raising his four children for two seasons in front of the camera on “Nellyville.” Throw in Emmy-winner Jon Hamm, from STL’s John Burroughs High School, and it’s clear that Hollywood has a St. Louis obsession.
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My wife and I both have a favorite Jim Edmonds show. Hers is The Real Housewives of Orange County. Mine is the Missouri Lottery Cardinals Live! post-game show on Fox Sports Midwest.
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Quote of the day: A “Real Housewives” character talking about Jim Edmonds on August 31st, “Jim made a living running into walls. I think he can handle Vicki."
posted by CM @ 6:50 PM
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Remember that show last year on CNN and Fox News set in Ferguson? Did you forget that one?
Remember that show last year on CNN and Fox News set in Ferguson? Did you forget that one?
I still don't know if that was "reality."
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