Not really, but it got your attention. I really incited red-state wrath with my 20-miles comment. An e-mail:

It may be time to rescue NRO from blue-state hell in Manhattan. K-Lo’s posts about not driving X-miles for lumber are so (dare I say it?) Noo Yawk, which is in turn so blue state. David Letterman used to shift the Home Office, from whence the Top Ten List emerged, from place to place, and he favored sites like Nebraska or Oklahoma (red state ground zero!) I know you all (an Okie-ism) will never actually leave the dreary prison of Manhattan, but honestly, having NR originate there is something like publishing abstinence literature at Hugh Hefner’s mansion . . . a decided mismatch. Perchance a little symbolic home-officing in Oklahoma City or Tulsa or Lincoln or Topeka would be balm for the soul. And then we’ll all pop over to Home Depot and test tractor mowers for spring!

Me: You just gotta understand what it’s like to have everything right by you. Best quality, maybe not, but it takes so darn long to travel in the NYC metro area, I’ll take the two bucks more and slightly lesser quality if it’ll get the job done, ok? It takes some people at NR World Headquarters longer to get home from the office than it takes Rich to fly to Peoria for a speech. It’s the way it is.

As for NR being in a blue state, don’t you like the idea of a red enclave in the middle of the possibly bluest of the blues?

Will it help if I cancel my Libya vacation and go to Topeka instead (has the NYTimes done a travel piece?)?