Dorothy: "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

The Kansas state motto is 'ad astra per aspera' - to the stars through adversity.

Sometime Kansan, Charles Lindbergh, was the first person to fly Accross the Atlantic. A Kansan, Steve Hawley, was on board the first flight of the space shuttle, Discovery, and that same Kansan was in charge of deploying the Hubble Telescope.

Somewhere in a Kansas school is a litlle girl or boy who could have taken us further towards the stars if it hadn't just been made deliberately more difficult.

And all because a few arrogant grown ups banged their heads and are off to see the Wizard.

I'd love to write a satire of the Kansas School Board based on the Wizard of Oz.

Ad Astra Per Veritas.

Pharyngula::Goodbye, Kansas