Our Dear Phill
Perhaps being a public figure isn't all it's cracked up to be. Our AG, Super-Phill, appears to be gunning for the governorship. Elliot Spitzer of NY could go after securities fraud. Phill gets to go after abortion clinics and science textbooks. I feel kind of sorry for the guy. He's gotten a bum rap, hitting headlines around the country (and world) in a way calculated to make him look pretty kooky, whatever the quality of his original intentions in fighting crime and upholding the law. Amidst attacks, Phill wrote an editorial (registration req)defending his actions (recently including an "investigation" of abortion clinic records for evidence of statutory rape and late term (post 22 wks) abortions, as well as secret meetings with anti-evolution members of the state school board) as reflective of the values of ordinary Kansans, in the Sunday opinion page of the KC Star. Without identifying particular issues, Phill makes a general argument for truth, justice and the Kansas way and how we should ignore those naysayers who claim we're embarrassing ourselves on the world stage because we know the Truth.
An excerpt: (forgive me from taking it out of context, but I couldn't figure out what it meant even in context)
Kansans are raised in homes where they are taught that there are more important things than “what's in it for me?” They learn that love is a wonderful mix of truth and grace that begins in truth, germinates as faith, builds to hope, and manifests in love.
????
There's a lot of terms about faith and truth and having one's feet on the ground, the general gist being, we Kansans are a lot more rooted and in touch with God that you heathen coastal (and continental!) materialists.
However, while reading this article, I wondered if Super Phill was a) high on cold medicine when he wrote this; b) the victim of biased editing; or c) suffering neurological effects from his bout of West Nile Virus last summer.
What I would really like to see is a one-on-one basketball match between Phill and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
An excerpt: (forgive me from taking it out of context, but I couldn't figure out what it meant even in context)
Kansans are raised in homes where they are taught that there are more important things than “what's in it for me?” They learn that love is a wonderful mix of truth and grace that begins in truth, germinates as faith, builds to hope, and manifests in love.
????
There's a lot of terms about faith and truth and having one's feet on the ground, the general gist being, we Kansans are a lot more rooted and in touch with God that you heathen coastal (and continental!) materialists.
However, while reading this article, I wondered if Super Phill was a) high on cold medicine when he wrote this; b) the victim of biased editing; or c) suffering neurological effects from his bout of West Nile Virus last summer.
What I would really like to see is a one-on-one basketball match between Phill and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.