Look, I’m not afraid to admit it: I have driven a minivan for more than a decade. In fact, we bought our second Chrysler minivan a couple of years ago. And let me tell you: I’ve heard all the jokes. Yeah, I’m less of a man because I drive a minivan. I get it. Ha ha.

Hey, did any of you see Angelina Jolie in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, driving a Chrysler minivan just like she was Steve McQueen in Bullitt? That was my minivan she was driving, folks!

Anyway, riddle me this, loyal readers: Why does the minivan get such…

We’ve got a report online now that says this: “The FT Alphaville blog is reporting that InBev is working on a $46bn takeover for St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser. The blog did not disclose its sources, and noted that representatives from InBev and Anheuser-Busch did not comment.”

FT Alphaville is a blog by the Financial Times.

Is this an alarming development? Is Anheuser-Busch in play? Could the country’s largest brewer fall into other hands?

Let’s start this topic by stating the obvious right at the outset: Nobody is in favor of child pornography. OK? Repeat after me: Nobody thinks child pornographers should get any legal protection.

Here’s another comment that I hope is obvious: All art cannot be about puppy dogs and cotton candy. Some art — legitimate and mainstream art — will and should be about difficult topics, hard topics. Even painful topics.

So, from there, here’s my question:

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a child porn case, upholding a law that “sets a five-year mandatory prison term for promoting, or…

As expected, Sen. Barack Obama won the Democratic primary in North Carolina. But by the narrowest of margins, he lost in Indiana to Sen. Hillary Clinton, who reminded supporters that her rival had called the state “the tie-breaker.”

According to the latest story by the AP:

Obama was on track to climb within 200 delegates of attaining the prize, his campaign finally steadying after missteps fiercely exploited by the never-say-die Clinton.

His campaign dropped broad hints it was time for the 270 remaining unaligned party figures known as superdelegates to get off the fence and settle the nomination.

Meanwhile, “Clinton vowed…

Without apology, I present to you (again) the topic of “potty parity.” I took plenty of heat the last time we presented this topic. But I offer it again with head held high.

Why? Well, apparently the state of Missouri’s esteemed legislators felt it was important enough to create legislation around the issue: Equal access to potties in public places.

And it seems that the sparkling new Chaifetz Arena on the SLU campus is in violation of the law — although it has complied with the city’s plumbing code.

The problem? Says our story: “For good measure, they threw in…