Mayor of Simpleton

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  He has moved. The new "Mayor of Simpleton" blog can now be found at www.KevinMcKague.blogspot.com
  
  See ya there! [...]
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  Posted: January 07, 2009, 10:06pm EST
  

• Visit Kevin's new blog at Index ...

  Visit Kevin's new blog at Index of Errors, "A partial documentation of the errors, misrepresentations, and outright lies of The Davison Index, the local newspaper advertising circular of Davison, Michigan". [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2008, 10:52am EST
  

• Thank you for visiting

  Due to time contraints with my new job, I have decided to put this little hobby aside. Rather than leaving the old posts and blog sitting around in cyberspace indefinately, I have erased my old posts (after saving them on discs) and old template.
  
  Thank you for all of [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2007, 12:38pm EDT
  by His Honor the Mayor

• Mike was here, maybe...

  Newsweek is reporting that Michael Moore anonymously gave $12,000 to help the publisher of an anti-Moore site when his wife was having health insurance problems. Of course, most of you read about the problems over at MooreWatch.com here first, last year, before Wonkette linked to the story. [...]
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  Posted: June 26, 2007, 4:13pm EDT
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• "This American Life" interview subject visits "The Mayor", and is still a bit nutty

  Last November, I wrote a review of an episode of one of my favorite radio shows, "This American Life" which originally aired in 2005, titled "A little bit of knowledge". In it, a electrician named Bob Berenz, in a misguided "eureka" moment, decides that Einstein, and nearly every scientist [...]
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  Posted: June 10, 2007, 12:19pm EDT
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• Gravity, schmavity! Teach "Intelligent Falling" in schools!

  It is possible that I may have been hasty in my judgement. Maybe the "Intelligent Design" crowd and Ken Ham at the Creation Museum are really onto something. Those "scientists" who try to explain away the world through observation and experimentation are just a bunch of con-artists, colluding to [...]
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  Posted: June 07, 2007, 10:41pm EDT
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• Fred Thompson demonstrates what is wrong with modern political discourse

  Now that I'm home, I'm trying to catch up on my YouTube watching, and I noticed that a lot of righties are cheering for this clip from Sen. Fred Thompson, made in response to Michael Moore's trip to Cuba to investigate health care for his movie "Sicko".
  
  
  
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  Posted: June 07, 2007, 10:57am EDT
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• Hey Creationists: "Thou Shall not Lie" about science

  I've been chuckling about this ever since I first read about it at The Impolitic.
  A museum has opened in Kentucky, just south of Cincinnati, which attempts to scientifically explain, in terms defined by the book of Genesis, the origins of the earth. Animitronic displays of dinosaurs are [...]
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  Posted: May 29, 2007, 3:04pm EDT
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• LTE in Buffalo: What is the "Moment of Conception", anyways?

  The "Letters to the Editor" section has always been my favorite part of the newspaper. There are days, when I am suffering from "news fatigue", when I read only the letters, and maybe Doonsbury. Travelling around the country, I immediately skip to the letters whenever I pick up an unfamiliar [...]
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  Posted: May 29, 2007, 2:53pm EDT
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• Today is take your kid to blog day

  In a new poll of children who have read "Mayor of Simpleton", the one thing missing that would make the blog more exciting is....kittens!
  
  
  
  I have been assured that no kitten was harmed in the filming of this clip, but I bet he was pretty surprised! [...]
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  Posted: May 22, 2007, 10:15am EDT
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• USA Today printed my letter!

  The letter I posted below will be in today's paper, and online. This is particularly exciting for me, because whenever you send USAToday a letter, they remind you that they get about 20,000 submissions a week. This will be my fourth letter of mine that they've printed over the [...]
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  Posted: May 22, 2007, 6:13am EDT
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• The new Immigration Bill is useless, just as planned

  My latest letter to the editors of the Flint Journal:
  
  May 19, 2007
  
  Editors;
  
  The immigration bill moving through Congress right now will do nothing to stem the flow of illegal immigration, and I am certain that accomplishing nothing is the exact intent of most [...]
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  Posted: May 19, 2007, 5:32pm EDT
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• Hmmm. . . I'm not

  Hmmm. . . I'm not sure why that last one posted twice. I'm still working out this process of blogging remotely by cell. [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 11:08am EDT
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• Treasury Dept. Promotes Cuban Health Care (well, kinda)

  Driving through North Carolina this morning, I heard
  on NPR a report that the Treasury Department is
  investigating Michael Moore, who reportedly took some
  people to Cuba to receive health care for their 9/11
  related ailments. Of course, this pretty much assures
  that for the next few days, every news report about
  Mike will mention the [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 11:04am EDT
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• Treasury Dept. Promotes Cuban Health Care (well, kinda)

  Driving through North Carolina this morning, I heard
  on NPR a report that the Treasury Department is
  investigating Michael Moore, who reportedly took some
  people to Cuba to receive health care for their 9/11
  related ailments. Of course, this pretty much assures
  that for the next few days, every news report about
  Mike will mention the [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 11:03am EDT
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• Resignation Letter

  May 3, 2007   Hello;   I have good and bad news to bring to you today.   First of all, I am happy to report that I have accepted an offer from a national trucking company as an over-the-road driver.  It is a good company, and pays a lot [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2007, 9:30pm EDT
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• Tell Flint Schools to spend money on students first

  Here is my latest letter to the Flint Journal. I'm not joking in the last line; I'm heading to the School Board Building as soon as I'm done here.
  
  In just two days in the Flint Journal, we read two revealing stories about Flint schools. First we read that [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2007, 9:37am EDT
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• Is it true Al?

  Somewhere in Mississippi, I was listening to a CNN simulcast on XM radio, and heard part of a Larry King interview with President Bill Clinton.
  

  "You have got the prospect that Vice President Gore might run," said Clinton, whose wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, currently leads public opinion polls [...]

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  Posted: April 22, 2007, 4:03pm EDT
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• An open letter to the world..

  Yes, the internet is a great thing...sometimes for combatting a local bully, in this case, our local "newspaper", the Davison Index.
  
  Hello All;
  
  I might get some flak for this, but the Index is distorting the truth once again, and they are doing it about somebody [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2007, 6:13pm EDT
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• Long time no see...

  Once again, I apologize for my long absence, and I want to thank those of you who have been coming to check in despite my lack of posts. I'm still keeping busy at my new job which keeps me away from some of my hobbies.
  
  I was in the [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2007, 11:15am EDT
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• A late review: FoxNews attempts "comedy"

  (Hey, I found a working computer!)
  
  Forgive me, I'm probably the billionth person with a blog to comment on this, (Add television to the list of luxuries I have been doing without while driving a truck) but have you seen that awful excuse for comedy presented on the Fox [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2007, 1:14pm EST
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• I'm still out..

  I apologize for my extended absence, and appreciate that many of you still pop in to check on the blog. As much as I love to keep things updated here, work has just kept me too busy to do so. Besides, without regular access to my computer, it's just too [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2007, 12:46pm EST
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• More local news from Davison

  Even on the road, hundreds of miles from home, our "local advertising circular", The Davison Index, is keeping me busy. This week they print a letter from a local resident who, among other things, suggests that members of the Davison city council want to build a new city hall in [...]
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  Posted: February 16, 2007, 8:04pm EST
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• Shocked..SHOCKED!! Banks are selling to illegal aliens!

  Talk radio and the blogosphere has been all aflutter with hysteria since reports surfaced that the Bank of America will be promoting credit card usage among illegal aliens.
  
  Several listeners calling into NPR's Talk of the Nation this afternoon complained about "Big Business" "aiding and abetting" illegal [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2007, 1:55pm EST
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• More nonsense from local media about evolution

  UPDATE, Feb 13: I'm home! Here is a direct link to the editorial . In it, local editor Don Schleske tries to explain why he'll only print some letters disputing the claims made in his columns.
  
  

  ... in too many cases, people believe certain things simply because they [...]

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  Posted: February 02, 2007, 3:53pm EST
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• ThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYou.....

  The field will have one less person it didn't need, and it is oh so good to see that some people know when to stay down.
  

  (Bloomberg) Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 2004, said today he won't seek the presidency next year.
  [...]

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  Posted: January 24, 2007, 7:57pm EST
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• President Bush: "Ahab without the grandeur"

  I missed Kristoff's last column "Et Tu, George", in part because I can't always find a copy of the New York Times where I live, and also because I'm just not willing to pay to read the columns the Times has placed behind a subscription wall on-line.
  
  No matter, [...]
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  Posted: January 24, 2007, 11:20am EST
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• "The Saddest Day of the Year"

  It's always fun to use the SiteMeter to get an idea of what is bringing people by to the site, and for the last couple of days people are looking for information about the "saddest day of the year".
  
  Well, I'm sorry to say that those people probably all [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2007, 1:14pm EST
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• Be worried about China, but for the right reasons

  China's testing of a space weapon frightens me, but not for the reasons you might expect. Sure, like many Americans over the age of 35, I spent much of my adolecence wondering if my future would be cut short by a nuclear war, but I don't think that a [...]
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  Posted: January 19, 2007, 12:05pm EST
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• True story: Homeland Security at work!

  It has been a long three weeks, but I am finally finished with the last leg of training in my new career as a truck driver. One thing that I have begrudgingly begun to accept is how drivers are forced to surrender in so many little ways our Constitutional protections [...]
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  Posted: January 15, 2007, 10:00pm EST
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• Just how many drunk drivers are there on New Year's Eve?

  Enough that the trucking company I work for decided to pull all of it's drivers off of the road until Monday. Apparently, approximately twice as many Americans die in alcohol-related vehicle deaths on New Year's than any other weekday night.
  
  So, that means I'm stuck in a very [...]
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  Posted: December 30, 2006, 5:22am EST
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• Just how many drunk drivers are there on New Year's Eve?

  Enough that the trucking company I work for decided to pull all of it's drivers off of the road until Monday. Apparently, approximately twice as many Americans die in alcohol-related vehicle deaths on New Year's than any other weekday night.
  
  So, that means I'm stuck in a very [...]
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  Posted: December 30, 2006, 5:22am EST
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• Happy New Year!

  Once again, I will be hitting the road and will be away from my computer for a while, so I wanted to wish everybody a Happy New Year while I had the chance.
  
  I am absolutely certain that 2007 is going to be a better year on many [...]
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  Posted: December 29, 2006, 12:20pm EST
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• Wanted for '08: A man like Gerald R. Ford

  C-Span was showing some old video of President Ford yesterday, including coverage of his inauguration in the East Room of the White House in 1974. My perception of what I saw might be slightly tainted by what I already know about the man from 32 years of history since, but [...]
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  Posted: December 28, 2006, 9:23am EST
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• A little bit of knowledge is indeed dangerous

  Just the other day, I was listening to that excellent radio program "This American Life", which is now played every day on XMPR, on XM satellite radio. They were repeating an episode from July, 2005, called "A Little Bit of Knowledge". Act III was particularly interesting:
  

  Act [...]

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  Posted: November 02, 2006, 7:24pm EST
  by His Honor the Mayor

• A short glossary and other clarifications

  Since being outed as a blogger by the local paper a couple of weeks ago, some local residents who either aren't web savvy or blog readers have asked some questions. I'll try to answer them.
  
  What's a blog? It's short for weblog. Please don't call it a web [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2006, 1:55pm EDT
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• Welcome Davison Index readers

  UPDATE: Any Google searchers looking for info on "The Davison Index" might be interested in reading more by following this link here. The Index has a long history of shaping facts in order to fit the story they set out to print, to fit the views of its publishers. [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2006, 6:24pm EDT
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• Is this poetic justice?

  (Update, 5/19/07) Going through my old posts, I noticed that the link provided here to MooreWatch doesn't go to the original post anymore. Too bad. It looks like they've gone through some changes over there over the past year since I wrote this.
  
  A website that has made its [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2006, 10:24am EDT
  by His Honor the Mayor