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With Republican gains in Tuesday’s off-year elections, President Barack Obama doesn’t need a weatherman to tell him which way the winds are blowing. Luckily the president is now his own weatherman.

Just type www.obama-weather.com into your browser and up pops an avatar…

Yanhui Zhang of the University of Illinois, father of pig manure-to-oil technology. (Tom Roberts/AP)

he legendary streets of El Dorado were said to be paved with gold. Now we learn that the roads in Missouri one day may be paved with…

Postcard from Mound City/Dan Martin

Some years ago, when the city of Clayton banned the use of plastic chairs and tables at outside restaurants (the mayor said they were “scraggly”) we thought city officials were being a tad snooty.

But now comes…

Possible new study: Are men attracted to women in red who have sore feet?

This just in: Some women wear shoes that cause foot pain.

Yes, your mother already told you that. But now it has been established with unprecedented scientific accuracy. Take…

Stan Kann in 1990; his death left a vacuum.

Memo to the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission:

May we suggest that you update your promotional literature to make the claim that “St. Louis is the Gateway to Suction Tourism”?

Oh, sure there’s the…

AP Photo/Ron Thomas

Former St. Louis Globe-Democrat editorial writer Pat Buchanan commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland by insisting Hitler really didn’t want war all that much.

Mr. Buchanan’s cartoonishness brings to mind a campaign stop he made…

One excellent reason to read newspapers is that they contain many valuable life lessons, stories that can enrich and educate, making it easier to navigate life’s path.

For example, thanks to a story by Robert Patrick in the Wednesday Post-Dispatch, we…

We long have held that M&Ms, taken in moderation, are health food. Now comes science suggesting that’s true.

The chemical compound Brilliant Blue G, used as a food dye in blue M&Ms and blue Gatorade, among other products, has been shown to…

This week’s Missouri “Genius in Marketing” award goes to Mark Muller, president of Max Motors in Butler, 60 miles south of Kansas City in Bates County. He could have offered a $400 rebate to anyone buying a new Ford, Dodge…

$45 hat similar to $510,00 hat.

Rick Reilly of ESPN The Magazine tells the story this week of one Alfred G. Rava, attorney at law, who has reached a $510,000 settlement with the Oakland A’s baseball team and Macy’s Department Stores in a…

City dwellers aren’t preoccupied only with crime, tax deals for developers and historic theaters. Consider a conversation this week on a neighborhood list serve.

It began with a “gross out” alert. A man had allowed his Great Dane to drink from a…

Maybe they'd like a shower curtain, too.

Maybe you’ve said it yourself, looking out a window as rain pours down: “Great day for ducks.” Now, scientists in Great Britain have spent £300,000 (about $471,000) proving that yes, ducks actually enjoy a nice…

Guess who wrote this:

It is clear that many in the intelligence community remain in denial about the scope of its intelligence failures. While the report frequently criticizes the Director of Central Intelligence as the primary liaison to the president, the…

Actors in a production of Lysistrata at Douglas College in British Columbia

A coalition of women’s organizations in Kenya has claimed success in its one-week “bedroom boycott,” aimed at pressuring the African nation’s largely male coalition government to enact reforms.

Taking their cue…

I bought this bouquet Saturday afternoon from a florist who has a lovely little shop on Marconi Street on The Hill.

The shop has been in business for a little more than a year, and is run by a woman with her…

From the YouTube Channel of House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio

Excerpt from Bybee/Yoo torture memo set to music. (h/t Andrew Sullivan)

Throwing away your vote is a time-honored political tradition (see “Ralph Nader for president”). Who knew it also could be a crime?

Certainly not “Fan Guy,” the anonymous blue-blooded St. Louis Blues fan from O’Fallon, Mo., who — seemingly oblivious to…

The story is here (and includes a live working link to the YouTube video).