Kansas City and our Supermoon, featured prominently

If you hadn't heard or seen, last Saturday evening we experienced what they call a "Supermoon" effect. The moon was 13 or 14% bigger in appearance, depending on the source you read, and brighter, all because it was 16,000 miles closer to Earth, in its orbit than usual.

With that, naturally, photographers from all around the world took to their cameras. As luck would have it, a local photographer, one Charlie Riedel, shot that beautiful orb over our own Kansas City downtown and NPR, National Public Radio, picked it up on their website as one of a dozen great shots of it:

Around The Earth, That Moon Was Pretty Super

And so, here's the pic (click on it for larger, easier, better viewing):

So kudos to the photographer, Mr. Riedel, and to you, Kansas City.

You look pretty darned good.

Remind me not to be at the Marriott downtown

The news blurb:

"Police items stolen from car"

"Someone broke a window and stole two sets of body armor, ammunition and police clothing from an unmarked Lenexa Police Department car Thursday at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown, 310 W. 12th St.

A tactical sergeant parked there for a conference, Kansas City police said. When he returned to the vehicle, he discovered the theft."

Somebody has cajones.

Okay, a couple of points here.

1) The guy who did this had some guts (or whatever);

2) The police aren't even safe

3) Are we really becoming this lawless, as a city and society?

4) The Marriott Hotel Downtown may not know it or care or whatever (surely they do) but they have a pretty serious security and staffing problem if a cop, for pitys sake, with a police car, in or near their facility isn't safe from theft;

5) Downtown Kansas City has a bigger problem than I think was realized, heretofore;

6) The city of Kansas City has the same problem.

It'll be a long time from now, if ever, that I go near the Marriott, thank you very much.

Don't get me wrong. I'm a big downtown supporter and love the place and don't run from my shadow but seriously, if a police car isn't safe, how is mine?