Segment 1: New paintings by a Kansas City artist examine the 'brash volume' of public discourse. Rodeo clowns, talkshow hosts, preachers. To Michael Schliefke, they're symbols for what public discourse has become. Michael Schliefke , artist, Don't Blow Your Big Top at the Foundation Event Space Segment 2: A Kansas-born author creates literary buzz with 'halal fiction.' Farooq Ahmed has written a dystopian Civil War novel imagining Kansas as a holy state for Muslims. The border war between Kansas