Richard Crowson’s Commentary

1-20-2012 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Talk-In-Code-To-Racists Month



1-6-2012 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Played Like A Violin



12-23-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Corporations Are Legally People, But They’ll Never Be Dogs



12-09-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Living in a Water Wonderland



11-25-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Something NOT To Be Thankful For



11-11-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
A New Idea For Your Annual Holiday Spend-A-Thon



10-28-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Finally, A Halloween Song


10-14-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Cock-a-doodle-doo!


09-30-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
The Annual Struggle of Fall Yardwork


09-16-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Bluegrass Birthdays


09-02-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Crickets


08-19-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
The Prophet Samuel


08-05-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
A Brave Man in Sedgwick County


07-22-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
The Silence of the Climate Change Denier


07-08-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
The Cat Days of Summer


06-24-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
A Historically Low Note


06-10-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
How Not To Be A Punchline


05-27-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
O, Rapturous Summer!


05-13-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Irony Alert!


04-29-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
The Royal (yawn) Wedding


04-15-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Crowson’s Bring Back Beck Fund


04-01-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Commenter Fraud


03-18-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Ode to a Daffodil


03-04-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
How Not to Behave


02-18-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
A New Suggestion for Governor Brownback


02-04-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
What a Lesson for Us All


01-21-2011 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
A Response to Governor Brownback


01-07-11 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
I Refuse to Go Deep in the Heart of Texting


12-24-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Wishing You a Christmas Full of Peace and Quiet


12-10-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
The Wisdom of an LED Christmas


11-26-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Have Yourself a Perry Little Christmas


11-12-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
A Lesson in Harmony from a Cottonwood


10-29-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Zombie Robo-Calls


10-15-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Thanking Wichita’s Aircraft Workers


10-1-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Wichita: The Land That Time Forgot


9-17-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
From Winfield to Nicaragua


9-3-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Here’s to Passion


8-20-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Richard Crowson takes on a sports theme in his commentary.


8-6-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
The unprecedented nastiness of this season’s primary campaign seems noteworthy. Has there ever been a political atmosphere as charged with negativity as this one?


7-23-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
It’s been my lot in life, probably to the everlasting dismay of some around me, to be enamored with that humble little musical instrument, the banjo.


7-09-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
So my family went out of town for a week and Wichita had a whole lot of rain during that time. There was the usual indicator of too much moisture in Wichita yards: a mushrooming bumper crop of political yard signs.

6-25-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
The recent death of Tom Leahy Jr., better known as Major Astro to Kansas baby boomers, caused my mind to rocket into the past.

6-11-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Had a garage sale the other day. Swore I’d never have another one 2 sales ago. But stuff just kept piling up and something had to be done.

5-28-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
I was going to do another commentary today about British Petroleum’s oil massacre of the Gulf of Mexico.

5-14-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
The amazing thing about the tragic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for me, is not that it happened.

4-30-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
There’s a local businessman who’s running for Representative Todd Tiahrt’s congressional seat.  This guy is apparently just nuts about me. He really really really wants to be my pal. I know this because he’s tried three times to “friend” me on Facebook.

4-16-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Spring is such a generous season. Without our having to lift a finger, nature showers us with spectacular abundance every April. It didn’t require a public vote on which trees would bud first.

4-02-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
My ego can beat up your ego. My team can beat your team. My political party can beat your political party. My country can beat your country. My planet can beat your planet. My galaxy can…well, we’re not quiet that far yet, but the time will come.

3-19-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
What’s wrong with this picture: Here I am living in Wichita, Kansas, and I have to buy frozen White Castle cheeseburgers at the grocery.

3-5-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
I don’t know about you but I’m seeing signs of spring everywhere these days!

2-19-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Well, we’ve had some snow this winter. That proves there’s no global warming. No, really.

2-05-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
I never thought I’d say this, but, man! I’m really into basketball these days! Generally I barely pay attention to it. But a couple of things happened recently that turned me around.

1-22-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
It’s felt like the dead of winter around here lately - day after day of dense fog, damp air and cool temperatures. We’re not used to this kind of fog here in Kansas.

1-8-10 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
It’s crow time in Wichita. Driving my daughter to school this morning we noticed the thousands of crows roosting in the trees along Grove Street.

12-25-09 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
There’s a little dog that usually appears somewhere in every cartoon I draw.

12-11-09 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
We don’t really have any hills here in Wichita so we couldn’t erect our Greek Temple to the Celebrity Gods up high where everybody could see it.

11-27-09 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
One thing I’m betting you are not asking Santa for this year is a telephone book.

11-13-09 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
I’ve never been able to pass up an estate sale and stopped in at one last week in modest little home. The tattered art prints and hundreds of books painted a picture of a person with intellectual curiosity about the world of ideas.

10-30-09 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
What a weird holiday Halloween is. It’s like some sort of phantom holiday that we all know exists and yet seems to dwell in some other holiday dimension. It’s printed on calendars, yet no one gets off work for it.

10-16-09 Richard Crowson’s Commentary  
I like trains. I like riding on trains. I like looking at trains.  Heck, I even like songs about trains.

10-02-09 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
Fall is a time that always reminds me of when I was a kid growing up in the developing suburbs of Memphis.

09-18-09 Richard Crowson’s Commentary
I have a health care proposal. It’s not about insurance availability or doctor choice. It’s not about single-payer or public option issues.