Horrigan: Learning to THINK

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

One thing we can all agree on, be we black or white, Asian or Hispanic, young or old, liberal or conservative, believer or atheist, is that it's for the kids.

May 20, 2012 | 6:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Horrigan: The Compensation Committee Report

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

As part of this proxy statement for the annual meeting of shareholders of Old Sport Inc., the Compensation Committee of the board of directors (the Committee) furnishes the following report on executive compensation paid or awarded to the Columnist for 2011.

May 13, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Horrigan: Superheroes! Assassins! Sequels!

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

"Wow," I said, heading to the lobby. "Gun porn."

May 06, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Kevin Horrigan: A bad case of PIISD

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com • 314-340-8135

In July 2009, Carol A. Paris, a psychiatrist and an advocate for a single-payer national health care system, found herself on a speakers panel with Donna Smith of Aurora, Colo.

Apr 29, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Kevin Horrigan: That Viagra commercial raises some concerns

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

I have some concerns. Not major concerns. I have those, too. But everyday concerns, most of them related to the fact that I no longer seem to be hip.

Apr 22, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Horrigan: The GOP in 2052

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

In the spring of 2052, the pressures that had been building since the Great Seclusion finally erupted. The last 2 million Republicans, barricaded since 2041 within the borders of Kansas, kept safe by one of those 15-foot electrified fences that their ancestors once had proposed to keep Mexicans o…

Apr 15, 2012 | 8:30 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Kevin Horrigan: Who needs government?

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

I want government to leave me alone. I'm sick of it. Whatever happened to personal freedom? Whatever happened to personal responsibility? I want that government should just go away.

Apr 08, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial notebook: Nutriloaf and the Constitution, a story of hope

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com • 314-340-8135

Earlier this week, while researching something totally unrelated, I was transfixed by a judicial opinion written March 27 by Judge Richard A. Posner of the 7th U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago in a case involving something called "nutriloaf."

Apr 06, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Kevin Horrigan: In total confusion!

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com • 314-340-8135

From time to time, someone will complain that the United States Supreme Court should allow its proceedings to be televised. Based on what I saw on Wednesday, this is not a good idea.

Apr 01, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Kevin Horrigan: Going first class

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com • 314-340-8135

Remember the scene in "Jerry Maguire" where the flight attendant snippily closes the curtain between first class and coach, cutting Renée Zellweger off from Tom Cruise? Ray, Renée's incredibly cute son, says, "What's wrong, Mommy?"

Mar 25, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Kevin Horrigan: In ignorance is hope

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com • 314-340-8135

I don't mean to alarm you — well, actually I do mean to alarm you — but it seems that grizzly bears are learning to use tools.

Mar 18, 2012 | 11:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Kevin Horrigan: Why not Jesse James?

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com • 314-340-8135

The furor over Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley's decision to honor Rush Limbaugh with a place in the state Capitol's "Hall of Famous Missourians," has done one good thing: It's gotten many people who normally ignore the weird things that go in the Legislature to sit up and take notice.

Mar 11, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Kevin Horrigan: Playing to the cheap seats

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

As a card-carrying member of the media elite, it's hard for me to say something nice about Newt Gingrich. But here it is: He doesn't wear blue jeans in public.

Mar 04, 2012 | 12:10 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Kevin Horrigan: Accessories after the fact

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

Fur neckwear? Handbags? Metal cuffs? When you're not being arrested?

Feb 26, 2012 | 12:10 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Horrigan: How much is enough? Start with 15 bathrooms

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

Everything's relative. The more you've got, the more you feel like you need.

Feb 19, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Horrigan: A prescription for a tantrum

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. When I got sick, my mom got me medicine at a local drugstore by handing a nice man a prescription and paying him a few bucks.

Feb 12, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Horrigan: Ready for some football - but only football

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com • 314-340-8135

Thank you for agreeing to see me on such short notice, doctor. I guess I just sort of flipped out.

Feb 05, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Captains, cowardly and courageous

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

Ever since Francesco Schettino decided to treat a 114,000-ton cruise ship like a Jet Ski and buzz Isola del Giglio off Tuscany on Friday the 13th, people around the world have been ripping him.

Jan 29, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

The heroes of Wall Street

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

It's hard to read Thomas Frank's new book, "Pity the Billionaire" without being astonished at what utter nincompoops Democrats are.

Jan 22, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

• Audio: Thomas Frank reads from "Pity the Billionaire"

Days'd and confused by this calendar hubbub

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

Kevin Horrigan: I don't understand this yearning for more precision.

Jan 15, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Kevin Horrigan: Why I'm surging

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

The wind is at my back. I can feel the ground swell. Things are starting to break my way.

Jan 08, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Trolling about the God particle

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com • 314-340-8135

A couple of weeks ago, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced that they'd made "significant progress" in the search for a subatomic particle called the Higgs boson — the so-called God particle.

Jan 01, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Since when did everything become iconic?

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

Now that Albert Pujols is gone, can we give "iconic" a rest for a while?

Dec 18, 2011 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Crystalline memories of Dr. Bob

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

The Vatican has given its approval to plans for the Roman Catholic diocese of Orange to buy the Crystal Cathedral, a diocesan official said Thursday.... Under the agreement, the church founded by the Rev. Robert H. Schuller will be allowed to lease back the property for three years, after which i…

Dec 11, 2011 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Kevin Horrigan: A forthright discussion of sex

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

Here is an actual email that arrived one day last week. The names have been changed for reasons that soon will become blindingly obvious:

Dec 04, 2011 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.