I am currently in my nephew’s apartment in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, where he recently took a job as assistant conductor of the Kansas City Symphony. Through the window I can see over the Missouri River into the state of Kansas. If being able to see Russia from part of Alaska made Sarah Palin an expert on foreign policy, I now am an expert in analying the problems in the red states.
Later this weekend we will probably actually go into Kansas. I already set my watch back an hour upon flying from Michigan to Missouri. I will set it back several additional decades upon passing into Kansas.
