The Obama White House is drawing ridicule for appending the official online biographies of nearly every president over the last century in order to link President Obama's accomplishments to the former commanders in chief.  The Obama team went into the pages of U.S. presidents dating back to ...

Although the citizens of Davenport no longer support the Guardian Angels, it doesn’t mean they aren’t making a difference where they are welcome. In Washington, D.C., the Guardian Angels began patrolling a neighborhood after a man was attacked in broad daylight. Closer to home, and ...

Starbucks: Going "˜gay' is profitable!.

Okay, so I was reading the articles on QCOnline, by Kristy Mergenthal, covering the trial of the Geneseo woman whom faked being ill with cancer and flimflammed local citizens into donating around a $100,000 dollars to assist her with living. If there is anything that is as sure as death and taxes in my ...

A little story for your late Sunday afternoon entertainment. This one is the fable of the kind-hearted mechanic.I was driving my truck down the highway the other day and just happened to glance at that little sticker the oil change places put in your windshield to remind you when it's time to get the ...

We first discovered Bones BBQ at the Freight House Farmer's Market a few years ago. Like a ghost, they  disappeared and left no trace of their smoky, delicious whereabouts. Fast foward to 2012, like a mirage in the distance, a tiny barbeque shack on the side of Brady Street appears. A real smoker ...

Here's a little video of our Chihuahua, Remy, playing with Chance, my brother's Jack Russell Terrier, shortly after they met for the first time.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + ...

CCC Campus Tourney April 21 Offers Good Fun, $960 Top Prize After what seems like a short break from local charity poker tournaments in the Quad-Cities, there’s a good one coming up next weekend that you should check out. Here’s the flier, and below that, at my invitation, is a ...

The only media coverage I've seen about this project is this article on KWQC.com, which probably means they also mentioned it on a news broadcast. I don't know a whole lot about the project, but its one more piece of progress for downtown Davenport. I do know that the project is being done by The ...

For as long as I can remember, I've only had one modest wish in life:

To someday possess enough power to crush the hopes and dreams of the innocent in a display of pure malice and unbridled fury.

Well, it only took 41 years, but this weekend, my wish came true -- all thanks to the fine folks with the Quad City