Matson’s View: Smoke gets in your ayes.
Matson’s View: Local sports scene
New oddities: Matson channels Ralph Graczak
Of moderation and insufficiently flaming crosses
Elsewhere on this blog, you’ll find outraged comments from some readers objecting to R.J. Matson’s cartoon in today’s paper. I want to make two comments in response to them.
1. The cartoon’s premise, that the Internet provides a cloak of anonymity to…
Matson’s View: Reaction to the Belleville school bus reaction
Flunking civics
On Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama plans to give a nationally televised speech directed to school children. He wants to talk about the importance of working hard and staying in school. It’s a kind of presidential pep talk for kids.
Bitter partisans have…
School zone: No freeloading
The Missouri Supreme Court was correct — and politically wise — to beg off broadly intervening in Missouri’s system of funding public primary and secondary education.
The high court decided Tuesday that the state education funding formula enacted in 2005 satisfies state constitutional…
GOP-FORCE
You and Blondie at the Sheldon
Post-Dispatch designer and illustrator Dan Martin — the man who has drawn the Weatherbird for the past 22 years — has given kids from 8 to 98 a terrific gift.
I am talking about boys and girls who go for the funnies…
Filling in Lake DeWitt

As of noon, balloting closed for this week’s “Punchline” caption contest. Given the widespread skepticism about Ballpark Village, I figured R.J. Matson’s “Lake DeWitt” cartoon would draw a record number of entries. But R.J. reported late this morning:
The Lake DeWitt…
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