Kansas City is the 12th smartest city in America, in spite of all you Jane Austen fans.
The Daily Beast has come up with IQ scores for U.S. cities. The numbers are based on college degrees and non-fiction book sales, which should annoy self-educated Dickens adherents. Boston is No. 1 in brain power by these measures. Las Vegas, a city Tiger Woods liked to visit for reasons other than the quality of the book clubs, finished last.
Looking for meaning in these city lists is pointless, of course. But fiction lovers have a right to feel cheated. After all, does reading Dinesh D'Souza or the Lost Encyclopedia make one smarter than reading, say, Jonathan Franzen or The Hunger Games series?
Men, especially, seem to regard the refusal to read "made-up" books as a virtue. But most of us meatheads could learn a lot more from Philip Roth's prostate than the 901st book book about George Washington. Unless, of course, you're a Virginia aristocrat considering the use of Fabian tactics in a war with a colonial empire. Then you should go ahead and reach for the Chernow.
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If K.C. is so smart, where do all those dumbasses who insist on driving in the left lane of the freeway come from.
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