This Friday's Speaker: Lee Judge, Cartoonist and BloggerImage

Anyone who reads the editorial page of the Kansas City Star  is familiar with the saucy cartoons of Lee Judge, a political cartoonist with the Star  since 1981 whose cartoons have been published in hundreds of newspapers and magazines. Some readers love his work, and some hate it -- the mark of a successful political cartoonist.  In two previous programs at the Plaza Club, Judge has told us the stories behind many of the cartoons that he couldn't persuade his editors to print. But this time will be different: Judge will take us behind the scenes of the blog he maintains on the Kansas City Royals baseball team, where he applies his journalistic talents and love of baseball to analyze the Royals pitch-by-pitch.  Judge has been a popular favorite for the Plaza club, and this time will surely be no different.