Tuesday, March 15, 2005

We have a festival here called "Taste of Minnesota"

It's not all about Lutefisk and Lefse, though those can be found there, or even, from our southern regions, bratwurst and beer, which I highly recommend. Finnish cuisine, boiled ring bologna and jello salad don't even make a showing. [Nor do they deserve to.]

We also have one of the largest Hmong communities in the world (including even Cambodia), who make truly fantastic springrolls, with some of the hottest sauce on the planet. And we have a large Mexican community, and I don't have to tell anyone in the know about the great food they produce.

We took in a Mexican friend of my stepson's, who was recently deported until she got her paperwork in order - which she did, and she's back - who would cook us the most wonderful meals. [Molé, chocolate sauce, isn't worth trying for the average Scandahoovian, nor is...uh, I'm choking on the name for cow intestines, as well as the memory of the flavor, or lack thereof. But everything else is worth stuffing yourself on.]

But...

I can't offer you any of that.

What I can offer is a taste of Wisconsin politics in the form of a post from Lance Burri:
Sauk County, Wisconsin, runs its own old folks' home – the Sauk County Health Care Center (SCHCC). It's a pricey business, and some of us think, maybe, we should let the private sector handle it. Others disagree.

On one side is a county supervisor who looked at facts to reach her conclusion. On the other side, another supervisor, who calls it "unforgivable" if we don't rely on emotion, instead.

Which one do you want in charge of your tax money?

Read the whole thing. The guy's awesome.