Fair on a stick

Characterizing the Minnesota State Fair is a bit challenging. This is in part because I haven't been to any other state fairs, so I have no basis for comparison. The entire event seems foreign to me, however. There is this agricultural component of the fair that I suspect was far more relevant 20 years ago, and now seem a tacked-on afterthought. Notwithstanding this, checking out the enormous pigs is a delight.

People watching is perhaps the best part of the fair, though I'm nearly overwhelmed with an urge to start shooting people. The fair is one of those places where nobody understands basic concepts of walking (the MOA is another) and it teems with poorly supervised children shrieking as their overweight parents gawk like the yokels they are. Nowhere is my contempt for humanity more justified.