"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said the 'ultimate measure of a man is
not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy.'"Those words resonated last week after I interviewed...[whose name goes here?]."It's news quiz time, boys and girls! The passage above is excerpted from a column by Sylvester Brown Jr. in Tuesday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The interviewee whose name belongs where the brackets are is:A. U.S. President-elect Ba
When Unreal stumbled out of bed, picked up copy of Tuesday's Post-Dispatch and flipped to the Metro section, it took a few seconds to wrap our puny little brain around this headline:
"Floyd Irons is out of prison, back to basics -- helping kids."
See, last we heard, Irons -- illustrious basketball coach, confessed cheater and convicted felon -- was serving a stretch in federal prison. Now he's gallivanting around town, giving interviews, and vowing he's a changed man.
Perhaps Unreal would hav
Photo: Nick LucchesiBrown said adios in a speech yesterday afternoonSomebody help me out here - is there an editors' note re: erstwhile St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Sylvester Brown in the paper today, or online?I have put in a request to chat with Editor Arnie Robbins and am waiting to hear back. In the meantime, I found a "note to readers" from Robbins and Managing Editor Pam Maples which was sent to and posted on a media blog. You can read the note to readers after the jump.
Photo: Nick LucchesiBrown had a message for management yesterday: "Be careful."St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editor Arnie Robbins told me this morning that ex-columnist Sylvester Brown was shown the door over "one issue only: a violation of our ethics policy."Brown, who was one of few African Americans in the newsroom, yesterday made overtures that his March 26 D.C. trip was being used a scapegoat because of complaints he's been making about racially unfair policies at the paper. So, what is the P-D's
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and columnist Sylvester Brown have parted ways. We've already reported on all the messy details per Sly Brown and his editors. But what we're really interested in today is the horse race to replace Brown as the paper's next minority columnist. After all, Brown was hired to replace Greg Freeman, a columnist who often served as the minority (and more specifically African-American) voice of the Post-Dispatch prior to his untimely death in 2002. So who are the likely cand
Lots of candidates for Daily RFT's weekly Ass Clown award. You know the rules: Vote early, vote often and nominate your own choice in the Comments thread. Back at you later with the results. 1. David Dausman -- Former Wellston police officer charged this week with corruption by a public servant, patronizing a prostitute and felony drug delivery. Dausman allegedly paid for sex with heroin and faces federal charges of making and possessing counterfeit money. 2. Tea Baggers -- This guy* group (righ
We diversify our investment portfolio (hint: it involves scuba gear!), get metaphysical and bump into one of the strangest Bargain Box items yet. Plus: What's Buggin' Sly Brown?
Unreal gawks at a prominent piece of public art and spends quality time with a pronoun; plus, we (neatly) gorge ourselves on chicken wings and wash it all down with a malternative
www.sylvesterbrownjr.blogspot.comI carried on so with that blog yesterday about Sylvester Brown's tempestuous departure from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that I completely forgot to include some information about who will replace Brown as a metro columnist.Editor Arnie Robbins told me he's not sure if the paper *will* replace Brown. "Right now I am not even thinking about that," said Robbins. "That's something we'll have to think about."Brown was one of a handful of African Americans in the Post'
An ass clown who doesn't tea bag? Is there such a beast? Voting wrapped up Sunday morning, and by a convincing margin Daily RFT readers chose everyone who attended last week's Tax Day Tea Party at Kiener Plaza as the biggest ass clowns of the week. Congratulations tea baggers. When it came to embarrassing yourself in public last week, you licked the competition with 45 percent of the vote. Second place (with 22 percent of the vote) went to David Dausman, the allegedly crooked Wellston cop accuse
