After years of weaving around Kentucky’s political byways—you know, the ones named back-to-back after former governors—I finally made a right turn and ended up at the Fancy Farm picnic. Please excuse me for having missed 128 of them, but sometimes civic life can benefit from fresh eyes. Media coverage summarized the event as, “Democratic Senate candidates trade fire at Fancy Farm,” in keeping with journalists’ role to hype conflict, follow the money and sniff out (some would say help create) t