Two weeks from today, I'll be able to vote for my preferred candidate for president of the United States, for my regional congressional representative, for my local state house and senate representatives, and for various judges and city officials. All of those votes are relevant to my life--but the most ...

( I put up this post on my blog last week, a few days after our governor here in Kansas, Sam Brownback, signed into law what is likely to be one of the worst, most destructive pieces of legislation this state has ever seen. Today, a radically shortened version of ...