WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? CHICKEN PHOBIA?

Could Overland Park be out of touch with the times when it votes unanimously to not allow a chicken coup in town even though the neighbors in the area are happy about it. Chickens, for example could be regulated with a special animal permit and while I think that would be burdensome it is curious that the bureaucrats at City Hall didn't apparently consider the possible revenue.

The whole idea is that this sort of chicken accommodation is neither far out nor unmanageable, unless you still think the internet bubble hasn't burst and still can't see that no matter how many times you mow the lawn your property does not appreciate because of it!

Same with chickens. They add and detract little from the value of a piece of property. Of course some may associate the keeping of a chicken as moving backward, downward mobility or even degrading. Does it go way back to the generation of Americans who thought that getting away from rural America was the best thing that ever happened to them. These people probably don't have romantic notions about what they consider farm animals. I imagine some of these refugees from agrarian utopias past are sometimes for keeping chickens and while some no doubt believe that chickens should remain out of the burbs.

Of course it is just round one and the chickens are advancing on all fronts! Oh yes, and that is the Overland Park City Council running down Metcalf in the other direction, you know towards that Justice Palace yay south of here! Perhaps if they barricade themselves up in that Justice Palace they will be safe, from the chickens!

Of course these conservative tough guys and gals may know something about chickens we don't. I wouldn't count on that being true but it is a kind thing to say. It seems like it is pretty much a moderate and arch conservative Republican thing, fear of chickens. Both wings of that diverse party, the Republicans united once again in fear, this time fear of chickens.

There must be a technical term for it, OH YEAH, NOW I REMEMBER, ALEKTOROPHOBIA OR "I'M A BIG REPUBLICAN HYSTERIC, JUST SCREAMING IN THE RAIN"!

If chickens can unite the Republicans on the Overland Park City Council
they may deserve not a animal license but a thank you from all who hate
Republican disunity! By providing a real or imagined threat that both extremes of the Republican Party could agree on, or at least two of the extremes, they did something that has not been done since George W. stole the soul of Johnson County with his occasional parsonlike soliloquoy and bloodthirsty optimism.

Chickens hit Overland Park. The saga has just begun.