Look how much effort it takes to bore me

It has come to my attention that filmmaker Ken Burns will speak at William Jewell College's Achievement Day (no pun intended) dinner at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center hotel . . . So bring a pillow.

Incredibly, tickets to the event are selling for $100 which isn't bad if you figure that the event will miraculously cure insomnia and almost any other sleeping disorder.