If it’s not outright bad press, consider it good

With all the bad press Kansas has been receiving lately, I guess we can be thankful for this mention in Garrison Keillor’s column for Salon (even if it does discount the effort of twine rollers in Cawker City):
“We occupy a bountiful country of great civility (yes, really) and robustness and freedom, and if not the No. 1 Country in the World, nonetheless it has some great stuff, including Lake Superior, the Supreme Court, the Greatest Show on Earth, the Four Tops (“Baby, I Need Your Loving”) and the World’s Largest Ball of Twine Ever Rolled by One Man (12 feet in diameter) in Darwin, Minn. Cawker City, Kan,, claims a bigger one, but it’s more oblong and was done by committee.”
Posted by Melissa Cooley