Kansas City is filthy like a hooker!!!

So this week we have learned that this town is not only ridden with disease but also polluted and nasty as well.

Kansas City just got measured for its carbon footprint, and the size is nothing to brag about. Among the nation’s 40 largest metro areas, we had the sixth-worst carbon emissions per person, according to a study released Thursday by the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington, D.C.

Personally, I put the blame for pollution on rich white people. Of course a few middle-class defenders of this group may champion this caste which they hope to join one day . . . In fact, some might even point out that my fellow Latinos can often be seen in beat up, old, gas guzzling clunkers with broken exhaust pipes . . . To that I answer that those cars are usually filled with no less than 2 dozen people so we're actually saving the planet.

Anyhoo . . . The truth is that other than about 9 weirdos who are ardent ultra-liberal, bike riding fruit cakes and the good folks at Bridging the Gap; Kansas City doesn't care about the enviornment.

This is a commuter town and people in Kansas City have always prized expediency and convenience over the greater good. Build light rail if you want but it's been proven that it not only doesn't get people out of their cars . . . It wastes a lot of money while not getting people out of their cars. People might love it on the weekends but when they have to be somewhere on time they'll get behind the wheel even if gas is comparatively pricey but still not as high as what Europe pays.

The solution: It should be telecommuting or a better plan than the sloppy patchwork put forth by Mayor Funky . . . Still, this is a town that wastes electricity on an ugly looking art gallery so I wouldn't expect much progress.