Toto, Kansas is out of here

You have no doubt already heard about the decision by the Kansas school board to alter their science curriculum to cast doubt on evolution and Darwin's theories. While it's already been batted about a fair bit in the blogosphere, I was flipping through my local paper's letters to the editor this morning and saw one from a reader who is too clever by half. I felt I had to share it with you here. (Note: I'm providing the link, but the only reason I'm pasting in the full content of the letter is that our paper's web site only keeps these letters on line for a week, then they disappear.)

Toto, I don't think Kansas exists anymore

I recently read that the Kansas Board of Education approved new science standards that cast doubt on evolution and Darwinism. I don't think this story is true because I really doubt the existence of Kansas.

I don't think it is a state. All that geographic "evidence" that supposedly supports the notion that Kansas exists doesn't necessarily prove anything. It will be a great day for commuters and truck drivers when we finally legislate that Kansas is merely a geographical theory, and that long straight roads, flanked by corn, may, or may not, need to be traveled.

Yes, our day of victory will come over those malicious cartographers who are out to infringe on our vacation plans by adding an additional 400 miles to the travel route to Colorado. Now... if we could legislate away the Atlantic Ocean, I could catch a morning bus and have tea in Paris.

SEAN WALSH

I was chuckling all the way into my office. Well done, sir. Well done indeed.