This is not as remarkable as it first appears. Dorset, a tiny village in the beautiful lake country of north central Minnesota, surrounded by five state forests, holds its mayoral elections in a unique way: Names of nominees -- dozens, usually -- are placed in a hat during the town's biennial fair and a name is drawn to challenge the incumbent. The winner is elected by acclimation, which usually involves some beer and much shouting and laughter. Sounds like a pretty decent way to do it.
I'd put the age of our current President at about six. Give me pretty much any 16 year old instead.
Mayor Tufts grew up not far from Hibbing, which as every school child knows is the town where Bob Dylan grew up. Dylan wrote a song about being young.
Here's a poem by Richard Brautigan that's kind of related.
"Ah, Great Expectations!"
Sam likes to say, "Ah, great expectations!"at least three or four times in every
conversation. He is twelve years old.
Nobody knows what he is talking about when
he says it. Sometimes it makes people
feel uncomfortable.
I used to think our current office holder acted like a 12 year-old. Now I'm leaning toward a 5 year old. This kid might have been an improvement. . .
ReplyDeleteI've about run out of pejoratives to describe our Current Occupant.
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