I am sure that Kansas is a wonderful place, but if Leavenworth Penitentiary is your best known landmark and a fictitious 12 year old girl from the "Land of Oz" is your most famous resident...then you might want to question why you are living in a state, where all everybody does...is dream about leaving!!!

Dorothy had to be hit on the head, threatened by a wicked witch and followed by

three possible pedophiles with no first names...before wanting to come home.

If she had known that the Republicans now controlled both legislative chambers

and the Governorship, she might have decided to still just be clicking her heels.

While Munchkin Land was a fantasy, Governor Sam Brownback has described the

new reality of a unanimous conservative Republican state government as a

"Grand Experiment" and model for other states to follow.

Unlike the experiment that forced a frightened monkey 75 miles into space last

week on an Iranian rocket ship, Kansans voted to go along for this tumultuous ride.

The monkey landed back safely, but Kansans may not have as soft a landing

after they see how the blueprint to implement Republican principles of small government and lower taxes, might leave John Gotti's 12x6 cell at Leavenworth, as the only affordable government housing plan.

