Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. Oh wait, we are!

Somewhere in the midst of all the year-in-review and year-ahead and damn-football-score stories of the past 24 hours, there was this odd tidbit- once again, from the Sunflower State (where we just went yesterday with some random rolls of Kodachrome):

Four students who posed for photos with a human placenta have been kicked out of a suburban Kansas City nursing program after one of the pictures was posted on Facebook.

One of the students, Doyle Byrnes, has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Kansas seeking to force Johnson County Community College to reinstate her before classes resume Jan. 19.

The Kansas City Star reported that Byrnes and several other students were attending a lab course at Olathe Medical Center in November when one of them asked a nursing instructor for permission to photograph the placenta so they could share the experience on Facebook.

The lawsuit against the college and several of its employees said that the nursing instructor responded, "Oh, you girls," but didn't tell them not to do it or that it could result in discipline.

Afterward, Byrnes posted a photo on the social networking site showing her smiling broadly, wearing a lab coat and surgical gloves and leaning over the placenta in a tray.

Ultimately, word of the picture got around, and the students got thrown out. But on account of its shock value? Offense to the pro-life movement? No!

( Warning- completely and utterly tasteless from here on: )

Okay. Time to go lead a church service;)